“Vietnam plans to build nuclear power plants which will become operational from 2020. The Vietnamese government has also decided to join hands with Japanese partner in building the nuclear power plant No 2. Putting such plants into operation will be important progress in diminishing emissions and preventing global warming,” Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said at a Global Eco-Business Forum - Environment Technology Cooperation between Vietnam and Japan. The event was held by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in coordination with Japan’s economic times Nikkei in Hanoi.
Addressing the forum, PhD Doan Duy Khuong, VCCI Vice Chairman said, “The event has been helping to boost economic cooperation between the two countries. The Japanese side has shared information and their new advances in the field of environment science and technology in order to help Vietnam gradually settle environmental issues towards sustainable development.”
Khuong added that in the fourth quarter of 2010, VCCI set up the Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development. The forum is among significant steps to promote the Council’s general purposes till 2020 which aims to build a community of stable and active Vietnamese businesses, contributing to the country’s economic growth, social welfare, poverty elimination and environmental protection process in the 21st century.
Deputy Prime Minister Hai appreciated the forum’s operation, noting its importance in the context of environmental issues becoming a huge challenge to Vietnam’s policy of fast growth in connection with sustainable development, as well as to the Vietnam-Japan comprehensive partnership.
Speaking at the forum, Deputy Prime Minister Hai hoped that Japan, based on their practical experiences, will support Vietnam in activities to raise the awareness and communications on the environment for managers, enterprises and the community; boost the transfer of energy saving solutions, green and friendly-environmental technologies. He also called on Japanese businesses to transfer technologies on recycling plastic waste and electronics industry waste like batteries; to help Vietnam build a treatment system against environmental pollution; build model projects on production and consumption of environment friendly products; set up standards on environmental protection for infrastructure projects in industrial parks, residential areas, sports, recreation and entertainment complexes; assess the effectiveness in implementing legal regulations on environment, as well as challenges needed to overcome.
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Tanizaki Yasuaki said that environmental issues are a global challenge, and especially serious in Vietnam, which is named among the hardest-hit nations by climate change. The ambassador affirmed that Japan wanted to support Vietnam in both experiences and techniques to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions and cope with climate change-related issues.
Over the past time, many Japanese businesses operating in Vietnam have contributed actively to environmental protection work. For example, Sumitomo Group with the Thang Long Industrial Park Project was awarded the prize for environment by the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, thanks to having built the rainwater treatment system, professional transformer station and communication infrastructures on the motto “a circular society with low CO2 content”. Another is the anti-flood pumping system of Ebara Vietnam which helped to reduce flood damages in areas surrounding Hanoi. Besides, the projects such as UHV transformer, ultra-supercritical (USC) coal power of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and other projects have been invested in Vietnam.
Le Tam
Vietnamese
October 2024
Hanoi
