Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested authorities from the central to local levels to always take the initiative and avoid subjectivity in natural disaster prevention and control.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment chaired a teleconference of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC) on August 27, the 11th of its kind and one of the main activities hosted by the Ministry.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation, marine waste management, environmentally sustainable cities, and air and water pollution are among cooperation areas targeted by Vietnam and Japan in the time ahead.

Following is the text of the speech by National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan at the seminar on "Stepping up parliamentary action: The climate change urgency” held on August 19.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued guidelines for the planning of efficient energy use from 2020 to 2025 at the city and provincial level.

Ca Mau Province has presented a master plan to fight climate change impacts in the next decade that will cost an estimated VND19 trillion (US$820 million).

Enhancing state management on climate change is one of the major measures set in the national plan on climate change adaptation for 2021-2030, with a vision towards 2050, recently issued by the Prime Minister.

VOV.VN - Forging a closer relationship between the UK and Vietnam in an effort to tackle climate change and create better trade ties were central themes to online talks held on July 16 between the two countries.