The first phase of the Public Bike Sharing System – an innovative public bike-sharing scheme by the International Co-operation Agency of Germany (GIZ), tech firm Vietsoftpro and the central provincial people’s committee – has been launched in Huế City with an aim of developing a bicycle transportation plan for 2021-2026.
Microplastic pollution in the air in both inner and suburban areas of the central city of Đà Nẵng has become serious. Microplastics can go directly into the lungs during daily activities.
The hashtags #Seagamesnoplastic and #Greensport are part of a campaign launched during the 31st Southeast Asian Games to raise public awareness of environmental protection, according to Games organisers.
As global momentum builds on ending plastic pollution and marine debris, Việt Nam is strengthening its ability to build forward better from COVID-19 and transition to a circular economy.
Việt Nam will be an important security partner in Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy, director of the Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS) Julie Nguyễn said.
Locals in Hội An City, central Quảng Nam Province, are used to seeing the old man with a trolley walking along the roads and beaches every day to pick up rubbish. He has become something of a local celebrity.
Greater public awareness and action, especially in classifying garbage at source, is a breakthrough that HCM City will build on to environment quality in the coming decade.