The five Vice Chairs of the Council are Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Nguyen Van Duc, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Hong Linh, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Thanh Son and Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien.

The council also includes 24 senior leaders from the relevant ministries, sectors and agencies and four specialised committees including the committee for economically sustainable development, the committee for socially sustainable development, the committee for sustainable development of natural resources and the environment and the committee for a decade of education for sustainable development.

The council aims to provide the PM with proposals concerning targets, tasks, mechanisms, policies and necessary solutions to ensure the effective implementation of Vietnam’s sustainable development targets.

It will also help the PM to implement the Vietnamese Government’s commitments to the United Nations as part of activities regarding the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).