Vietnam’s five-year HFCs production, consumption baselines announced
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has issued a decision announcing Vietnam's Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) production and consumption baselines and total national consumption for the 2024 - 2028 period.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Natural Resourcesand Environment (MoNRE) has issued a decision announcing Vietnam's Hydrofluorocarbons(HFCs) production and consumption baselines and total national consumption forthe 2024 - 2028 period.
Under Decision 4134 /QD-BTNMT, the HFCs production baseline will be 0tonne of CO2 equivalents, while the HFCs consumption baseline will be 13,991,360tonnes of CO2 equivalents. Total national consumption in the periodfrom January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2028 will be 13,991,360 tonnes of CO2equivalents, it said.
The ministry has assigned the Department of Climate Change to sum up andreport the total annual HFCs consumption to the Ozone Secretariat, whilesubmitting to the MoNRE Minister a proposal on the total HFCsconsumption of Vietnam in each period.
In Vietnam, one of the strong steps forward in themanagement and protection of the ozone layer is the legalisation of regulationson ozone layer protection in Article 92 of the 2020 Law on EnvironmentalProtection.
Documents guiding the implementation of the law have clarifiedcontents of the roadmap for management and elimination of HFCs according toVietnam's responsibilities and obligations to implement the Montreal Protocol,along with sanctions for violations in the field.
The country has joined hands with the international community in protectingthe ozone layer, controlling and eliminating substances that deplete the ozonelayer, including CFC, Halon, CTC, HCFC, and Methyl bromide, and HFCs which arefluorinated greenhouse gases (GHGs). Vietnam has completelyeliminated the consumption of CFC, Halon, and CTC substances since January 1, 2010,and limited the import of Methyl bromide substances which were only used fordisinfection purposes.
In the 2020-2025 period, Vietnam will eliminate 35% of baseline consumption ofhydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). Vietnam’s import quota of HCFCs is only 2,600tonnes, which will gradually decrease in the following periods towards an endof importing HCFCs by 2040.
Vietnam has implemented a roadmap to eliminate HFCs with the goal of notincreasing the consumption of HFCs in the 2024-2028 period, eliminating 10% ofHFC consumption from 2029 to 2034 and moving towards eliminating 80% of HFCconsumption by 2045./.
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