Vietnam environment

VIETNAM OUTLINE COUNTRY PROFILE STATUS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTION SET-UP 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam COUNTRY PROFILE 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Geography The coastline: over 3,200 km long The land borders: 4,510 km Area: total surface area of 331,900 km2 Capital: Hanoi 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Climate  Vietnam has two seasons: cool and dry from November to April and hot and rainy from May to October  The difference between summer and winter temperatures is dramatic in the North (varying up to 12 degrees Celsius)  The South is warm year-round, with seasonal variations in temperature averaging just three degrees Celsius 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Population  The twelfth most populous country in the world  Estimated at 82.2 million (2004) Ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) make up 85% of the population, a mixture of over 50 ethnolinguistic groups make up 12% and ethnic Chinese comprise the remaining 3% 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Economic  GDP: $ 45.2 billion (2004)  Agriculture: 21.8%  Industry: 40%  Service: 38.2%  Per capital income: $ 485/year  Major export goods: crude oil, garments and textiles, sea products, rice, coffee,…  Major import goods: capital equipment, refined petroleum, steel… 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Education Education system is relatively well developed  Most children enter schools 82,600 kindergarten schools  23,419 schools (including primary, secondary and high schools),  247 vocational secondary schools and 123 universities and colleges (except private schools) 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam Land-use  The State allocates or leases land to individuals, households and organizations for their “stable and long term use”  A land use certificate was issued to the different land users and serves as evidence of the land use right  The law also gave land users with land use certificate a series of rights, including the right to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit and mortgage the land use rights 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam STATUS OF THE ENVIRONMENT 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 10 Strategy  To restrict increases in pollution, remedy environmental degradation and improve the quality of the environment; to fundamentally address environmental degradation in industrial and densely populated areas within major cities and several rural regions; rehabilitate and treat contaminated rivers, canals, ponds and lakes 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 37 Strategy  To improve capacities in the prevention and control of adverse impacts of natural disasters, particularly those of climate change; effectively respond and rescue, and remedy environmental incidents caused by natural disasters 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 38 Strategy  To rationally extract and use natural resources, ensure the preservation of ecological balance at a high level, and conserve natural and biodiversity resources  To proactively environmental implement, requirements in and respond to, the process of international economic integration and to control negative effects caused by the globalization on the environment 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 39 Legislative Mechanism/Enforcement  Environmental management capacity should be strengthened for the central level management system including the provision of facilities to ensure its operations, especially environmental inspection and monitoring  A local environmental management system should be established and developed in the direction of a combined management of natural resources and the environment 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 40 Legislative Mechanism/Enforcement  Strengthening environmental legislation consists of: completing the system of statutory instruments on environmental protection, ensuring the strict enforcement of the Law on Environmental Protection 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 41 Solution  Promote propaganda, education, and public awareness of environmental protection responsibility  Strengthen the state management, institution and legislation of environmental protection  Promote the introduction of economic instruments to environmental management 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 42 Solution  Harmonize links between economic development, social equality and advancement, and environmental protection  Create significant increase in investment in, and diversify funding sources for, environmental protection  Enhance scientific research and technological development capacities for environmental protection 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 43 Solution  Promote the socialization of Environmental Protection  Extend International cooperation in the field of Environmental Protection 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 44 INSTITUTION SET-UP 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 45 Position and function The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is an organization of the Government, performing the function of State management over land, water and mineral resources, environment,hydro-meteorology,survey and mapping for the whole country; state management over public services and representing the owners of State capital portions at enterprises with State capital in the fields of land, water and mineral resources, environment, hydro-meteorology, survey and mapping in accordance with the provisions of law 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 46 Conclusion Vietnam has made significant achievements in socio-economic development, culture, foreign affairs and national security in the past several years Environmental protection has produced results, initially restraining increase in pollution, partly remedying environmental deterioration and gradually improving the quality of the environment in certain places, which lay essential pre-conditions sustainable development in the future 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 47 for MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 48 Webside l Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment: l l http//www.monre.gov.vn National Environmental Protection Agency: l 12/30/15 http//www.nea.gov.vn Country Report Vietnam 49 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 50 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 51 [...]... been up-rooted 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 31 Issues and Problems  Low public consciousness of environmental protection  International economic integration is posing more strictly environmental protection  Greater and more complex impact of global and regional environment concerns 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 32 Policies  The National Strategy for Environmental Protection is an in separate... and environmental sanitation remains a great challenge Pollution is particularly rife in craft villages and considered a most pressing environmental problem The overuse of agrochemical and pesticides has resulted in cultivated land deterioration, water pollution and biodiversity loss 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 23 PLEASE PROTECT OUR EARTH ! ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam. .. Strategy for Environmental protection is an inseparate part of the National Socio-economic Development of the country Environmental protection investment means the investment for sustainable 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 25 ViewPoints          Environmental protection must be the task of the whole society, all levels of the authority, sectors, organizations, communities and all citizens; as environmental... cooperation 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 26 ViewPoints  Environmental protection must base on the strengthening of the state management, institutional and legislation capacities, along with the raising of awareness and consciousness of environmental protection stewardship among the people and the whole society 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 27 ViewPoints         Environmental protection is a constant... Report Vietnam 21 Urban & industrial environment The environment in many of our urban centers is polluted due to obsolete and rapidly degraded sewer and drainage systems; The development of urban infrastructure does not keep pace with urban population growth, which has led to the inadequacies of other urban social and sanitary aspects 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 22 Rural & Mountainous Environment. .. international cooperation 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 34 Policies  Environmental protection must base on the strengthening of the State management, institutional and legislation capacities of, along with the raising of awareness and consciousness of environmental protection stewardship among the people and the whole society 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 35 Policies  Environmental protection is a constant... and treatment, improvement of remedy the of degradation environmental quality; and the implementation of these activities must aim at the focal points and locations; and science and technology must be viewed as effective tools for environmental protection 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 28 Issues and Problems  Pollution on the rise versus pressing environmental problems unresolved: War remnants, adverse... the environment; Water sources, rivers, lakes… traversing major urban centers and industrial areas are severely contaminated; The indiscriminate mining and deforestation expansion of cultivated land 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 29 for the Issues and Problems  Short-term economic gains versus long-term environmental benefits and sustainable development  Obsolete technical infrastructure for environmental... discharged directly to rivers) 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 12 Water Environment Coastal Water: have revealed signs of contamination Concentrations of materials, metals heavy organic and pesticides in some places are beyond the permissible range The oil content also tends to rise rapidly due to the oil spills 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 13 Water Environment Groundwater: Groundwater resources are... Strategy, and serves as grounds for sustainable Environmental development protection of the investment country means investment for sustainable development 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 33 the Policies  Environmental protection must be the task of the whole society, all levels of the authority, sectors, organizations, communities and all citizens; as environmental protection is national, regional ... Report Vietnam 47 for MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 48 Webside l Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment: l l http//www.monre.gov.vn National Environmental... in Vietnam 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 18 Sao La ox (Pseudonym nghetinhensis) 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam 19 Large-antlered Muntjac (Megamunticus vuquangensis) 12/30/15 Country Report Vietnam. .. Country Report Vietnam 36 Strategy  To restrict increases in pollution, remedy environmental degradation and improve the quality of the environment; to fundamentally address environmental degradation