From improving institutions to devising detailed plans for each sector,Vietnam is making every effort in order to dramatically reduce CO2emissions by 2030.
Vietnam is predicted to pump466 million tonnes of CO2 into the air by 2020 and 760.5 million tonnesby 2030. The energy sector will account for the lion’s share, with381.1 million tonnes by 2020 and 648.5 million tonnes by 2030.
Huynh Thi Lan Huong from the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology ,Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN) said the institutions required toimplement the “Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action’ (NAMA) inVietnam are being built while a number of technical assistanceactivities have begun, including the building of scenarios for CO2reduction.
She noted however, that the capacityof ministries and related agencies in building NAMA projects as well assupervising and assessing the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions is stilllimited.
NAMA projects in the energy, industry,construction, agriculture, forestry, and waste management sectors havebeen designed but not funded.
Over the past fewyears, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), incollaboration with relevant agencies, has implemented a project onfacilitating implementation and readiness for mitigation of emission(FIRM) funded by the Danish International Development Agency.
The project is designed to assist efforts to reduce green house gasemissions, contributing to Vietnam’s green and low-carbon trend.
The project also helped remove non-financial barriers to building andpiloting prioritised NAMA projects, including the Assistance for WindPower Development project and the Electricity Generation from Biogas atmedium-and-large-size pig farms project.
TheGeneral Department of Energy under the Ministry of Industry and Tradehas also prepared the “Fund for Renewable Energy Development-MechanismGET FiT Vietnam” project to submit to NAMA Facility for review andassistance.
Nguyen Minh Bao from the EnergyInstitute under the Ministry of Industry and Trade said Vietnam had 253clean development mechanism (CDM) projects as of June 2014, potentiallyeliminating the expulsion of 137 million tonnes of CO2, as well as 11CDM-registered programmes and 10,068,987 certified emission reduction(CER) certificates.
The country is ranked fourthglobally in the number of registered CDM projects and 11th in thenumber of granted CER certificates.
Vietnam hasalso cooperated with Japan in the field under their Memorandum onCooperation in low-carbon growth signed in July 2013. The MoNRE wasassigned to coordinate with Japan to establish the Committee on theJoint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).
Japan hasproposed 28 JCM projects, 18 of which are in the energy sector, four intransport, four in waste management and three in forestry, with acombined potential reduction of 10 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
Vietnam has also prepared detailed plans for reducing CO2 emissions in each economic sector.
The energy sector has six plans built on the “Business As Usual”scenario, based on the assumption that new policies will be enacted tosupport technological development reducing CO2 emissions, such asenergy-saving and renewable energy technologies.
The total potential CO2 reduction in the energy sector is 237.3 million tonnes.
In agriculture, two plans will be implemented which aim to reduce 10.8 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
There are three plans to reduce CO2 emissions in forestry by up to 792 million tonnes.-VNA
Vietnam is predicted to pump466 million tonnes of CO2 into the air by 2020 and 760.5 million tonnesby 2030. The energy sector will account for the lion’s share, with381.1 million tonnes by 2020 and 648.5 million tonnes by 2030.
Huynh Thi Lan Huong from the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology ,Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN) said the institutions required toimplement the “Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action’ (NAMA) inVietnam are being built while a number of technical assistanceactivities have begun, including the building of scenarios for CO2reduction.
She noted however, that the capacityof ministries and related agencies in building NAMA projects as well assupervising and assessing the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions is stilllimited.
NAMA projects in the energy, industry,construction, agriculture, forestry, and waste management sectors havebeen designed but not funded.
Over the past fewyears, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), incollaboration with relevant agencies, has implemented a project onfacilitating implementation and readiness for mitigation of emission(FIRM) funded by the Danish International Development Agency.
The project is designed to assist efforts to reduce green house gasemissions, contributing to Vietnam’s green and low-carbon trend.
The project also helped remove non-financial barriers to building andpiloting prioritised NAMA projects, including the Assistance for WindPower Development project and the Electricity Generation from Biogas atmedium-and-large-size pig farms project.
TheGeneral Department of Energy under the Ministry of Industry and Tradehas also prepared the “Fund for Renewable Energy Development-MechanismGET FiT Vietnam” project to submit to NAMA Facility for review andassistance.
Nguyen Minh Bao from the EnergyInstitute under the Ministry of Industry and Trade said Vietnam had 253clean development mechanism (CDM) projects as of June 2014, potentiallyeliminating the expulsion of 137 million tonnes of CO2, as well as 11CDM-registered programmes and 10,068,987 certified emission reduction(CER) certificates.
The country is ranked fourthglobally in the number of registered CDM projects and 11th in thenumber of granted CER certificates.
Vietnam hasalso cooperated with Japan in the field under their Memorandum onCooperation in low-carbon growth signed in July 2013. The MoNRE wasassigned to coordinate with Japan to establish the Committee on theJoint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).
Japan hasproposed 28 JCM projects, 18 of which are in the energy sector, four intransport, four in waste management and three in forestry, with acombined potential reduction of 10 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
Vietnam has also prepared detailed plans for reducing CO2 emissions in each economic sector.
The energy sector has six plans built on the “Business As Usual”scenario, based on the assumption that new policies will be enacted tosupport technological development reducing CO2 emissions, such asenergy-saving and renewable energy technologies.
The total potential CO2 reduction in the energy sector is 237.3 million tonnes.
In agriculture, two plans will be implemented which aim to reduce 10.8 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
There are three plans to reduce CO2 emissions in forestry by up to 792 million tonnes.-VNA
