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Waste – to – energy projects help curb greenhouse gas emissions

Currently, Vietnam has about 20 waste-to-power projects; however, only three factories have been put into operation. In the southern region, only Can Tho has a waste-to-power plant in Thoi Lai district with a capacity of about 400 tonnes per day while Ho Chi Minh City has five such projects but one has suspended operation and another one has been delayed [...]

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Turning waste into organic consumer products, improving income for the poor

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – UNDP Accelerator Lab has released the message “Journey in innovation from the community” to honor grassroots innovators around the globe in solving challenges on local environmental issues, in which Ms. Trinh Thi Hong (founder of Minh Hong Biotech) has taken initiatives to turn waste into organic products, contributing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

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Green Bond Principles and the EU framework for green finance

The Paris Agreement, signed by 195 countries in December 2015 at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), aims to promote private investment in the ‘green economy.’ It aims to ‘strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change’ by making financial flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development’. It is foreseen that the private [...]

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Strategy for marine and island environment exploitation and protection by 2030, vision to 2050

The Government has just issued Resolution No. 48/NQ-CP dated 3/4/2023 approving the Strategy for natural resources exploitation and sustainable use and environmental protection of sea and islands until 2030, with a vision to 2050. (Strategy). Particularly, marine pollution is controlled, prevented, and minimized; land-based and sea-based sources of marine pollution, transboundary pollution problems, marine environmental incidents; and marine plastic waste [...]

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Vietnam calls for comprehensive, all-society approach to waste management

According to the UN, “zero waste” is an approach to promoting sustainable production and consumption, waste treatment in a closed-loop system, maximizing the reuse of resources and mitigating air, land, and water pollution. In November, 2022, Turkey introduced an initiative to designate March 30 as the International Day of Zero Waste and encourage the UN General Assembly to discuss this [...]

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The Path to Clearer Skies: Fighting Air Pollution in China

China’s air pollution is a well-documented issue, with over a million people estimated to die each year due to its effects. However, the country has been proactive in developing innovative solutions to tackle this challenge. In response to the growing crisis, China introduced various measures to combat air pollution. The government banned new coal-fired power plants, shut down old ones, [...]

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How plastic credits could tackle the social impacts of climate change

New financial instruments, such as plastic credits, are emerging to incentivize plastic waste collection. These voluntary mechanisms can potentially finance waste management activities and organizations in contexts where legally binding regulations and extended producer responsibility (EPR) – which means producers are responsible for a product’s end-of-life environmental impacts – are not yet in place. However, in their current state, EPR [...]

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Air pollution is killing 1,200 children and teenagers in Europe each year, EEA warns

Air pollution kills more than 1,200 children and teenagers per year in Europe, according to a report released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). It also significantly increases the risk of disease later in life. Despite improvements made in recent years, the level of key air pollutants in many European countries remain “stubbornly above” World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, the [...]

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Charting the Movement of Global Plastic Waste

The graphic by Our World in Data uses data from OECD and UN Comtrade to reveal how much plastic waste is traded across borders and which countries are estimated to export and import the most. The USA is estimated to have exported more than 600 million kilograms of plastic waste in 2020. While a majority was traded with Canada, a [...]

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New Research Shows Air Pollution Causes Harm at Every Age

New research has revealed the detrimental effects of air pollution on individuals throughout their lives, from prenatal development to old age. The study, which analyzed data from over 35,000 studies conducted within the past ten years, was led by experts at the Environmental Research Group of Imperial College London. The research emphasizes the particularly dangerous impacts of fine particulate matter [...]

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