A solid waste treatment plant under construction. (Photo: sotnmt.hanoi.gov.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese Government has set agoal to raise the rate of solid waste collected and safely treated to 100percent in 2050 as part of the freshly approved national strategy on greengrowth for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050.
Overall, the strategy aims at restructuring the economy inconnection with renewing the growth model to achieve economic prosperity, environmentalsustainability, social equality towards a green economy, carbon neutrality, andcontributing to limiting global warming.
Per the strategy, by 2050, 100 percent of urban areas willhave their drainage systems completed to remove the possibility of flooding.All waste water will be treated following technical standards.
In special-class and first-class municipalities, publictransport will handle at least 40 percent and 15 percent, respectively, ofpassenger volumes.
Meanwhile, by the time, at least 45 urban areas will ratifyand implement their own master plans on developing green growth city.
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, theprevious national strategy on green growth for 2011-2020 helped raise publicawareness about the significance of green growth after eight years ofimplementation. Measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions were carried outwidely, resulting in a reduction of 12.9 percent reduction in such emissionscompared to the normal development scenario.
Energyconsumption per unit of GDP declined by an average of 1.8 percent each year,while 46.9 percent of businesses targeted cleaner production by 2020 comparedto 28 percent ten years earlier. In particular, outstanding loans funding greengrowth stood at nearly 238 trillion VND (10.36 billion USD) by 2018, or 235percent higher than the figure in 2015./.
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