Photo for illustration: sggp.org.vn At the event, which reviewed technology demand for climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia, experts from Japan, UK, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and the UK, among others, noted outdated technologies employed by Vietnamese SMEs only increase business costs and pollute the environment. Vietnam ought to learn about global climate change policies, while studying and selecting suitable solutions for mitigating climate change impacts at home, they said. The experts agreed to help Vietnamese companies overhaul production technologies, make a technology reference list and define demand for specific technology packages. Ninh Khac Ban, head of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Department of International Cooperation, said Vietnam has received support from the international community in addressing climate change issues via bilateral and multilateral cooperative projects. Vietnam is among countries most affected by climate change impacts globally, with its Mekong Delta listed in the top three deltas vulnerable to sea level rises. Source: VNA
A quick reduction of HFCs could help slow climate change, avoiding 0.5 degrees Celsius of a projected rise in average temperatures by 2100. Nearly 200 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a Rwandan minister announced to loud cheers on Saturday, in a major step against climate change. The deal, which includes the world's two biggest economies, the United States and China, divides countries into three groups with different deadlines to reduce the use of factory-made hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, which can be 10,000 times more powerful than carbon…... [read more]
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A scheme to collect millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases and bury them under the North Sea off the coast of Rotterdam is Europe's best hope of showing it can make carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology work. Rotterdam, Europe's largest port, is the home to the sole survivor of a dozen European Union pilot plans to test CCS technology that has been thwarted by years of false starts. Fossil fuel and mining firms need to make CCS work if they are to avoid being left with "stranded assets", or energy resources whose value has to be written off because…... [read more]
Vietnamhopes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 per cent a year by 2030.This is equal to about 787.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. A rice farming project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Kien Giang. Deputy Minister of Nature Resources and Environment TranHong Ha announced this yesterday at a conference in Hanoi. He addedthat the figure could increase to 25 per cent if there was moreinternational support. The conference was called to announce the Intended NationallyDetermined Contributions (INDC) that Vietnam submitted to the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat inSeptember. It was organised by the Ministry of…... [read more]
