A seminar on urban green growth in Hanoi advocated for more awareness among investors and policymakers.

The free trade agreement being negotiated between Vietnam and the EU is expected to encourage businesses to reform and update technology, an important factor in promoting green growth in the country, according to the deputy chairman of the HCM City People's Committee.

The promotion of non-fired brick production and utilisation project in Vietnam is expected to help the country realise specific targets of the green growth strategy such as reducing environmental pollution, rehabilitating contaminated areas, improving the local livelihood, and mitigating the depletion of natural resources.

(VOV) -The Vietnam government has moved aggressively to style itself as a leader amid the global push to de-carbonize and reduce greenhouse emissions said Trinh Minh Anh, a Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) official.

Nearly a hundred representatives from 15 Asian universities gathered at a forum held on May 22 in the northern province of Quang Ninh to discuss the significance of green growth towards sustainable and harmonious development.

(VOV) - Hanoi, city of the rising dragon, has a history stretching back for a thousand years and the city has captured the soul of Vietnam says the introduction to a just released book entitled Hanoi Capital City by Michael Waibel.

The wind power development not only contributes to ensuring long-term power security for Vietnam but also promotes green growth by considerably reducing CO2 emissions, according to sector insiders.

The Prime Minister has recently approved a project on support for wind power use with a total investment of EUR7 million from the German Government’s non-refundable official development assistance.

(VOV) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the European Union (EU) has agreed to provide US$3.9 million of ODA for sustainable green growth projects.

(VOV) -Vietnam will need US$30 billion to carry out the Green Growth Strategy in 2020, of which 70% will come from the non-State sector.

(VOV) - The Republic of Korea (RoK) will continue to support Vietnam in building and implementing policies on environmental protection, green growth, especially in pollution and waste control, development of environmental industry and technology, bio-diversity conservation and capacity building.

(VOV) - Green growth is essential for sustainable economic growth and the well-being of the people said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong at the Vietnam Economic Forum 2014 in Hanoi on October 24.

International donors highly valued the Vietnamese Government’s efforts to improve policy on climate change adaptation, and pledged their continued support for Vietnam, representatives from the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) announced in a meeting in Hanoi on October 8.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on October 7 between the the central province of Thanh Hoa and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), pledging to jointly develop an action plan for green growth.

(VOV) -A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh is attending the fourth Mekong-the Republic of Korea (RoK) Foreign Ministers Meeting, which opened in Seoul on July 29.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has implemented a national action plan on green growth in Vietnam with the support from the UNDP in Can Tho city on July 2 as part of the Vietnam National Green Growth Strategy.

Leaders of Lyon have affirmed their willingness to aid Ho Chi Minh City in the field in the coming time, as the French city has strength in constructing and managing public transport projects.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Mark Rutte has voiced the Netherlands’ support for practical actions to realise the 2013 Mekong Delta Plan, with a view to minimising the adverse impact of climate change and developing a safe, prosperous and sustainable delta.

(VOV) -The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report on June 16 on green growth and fossil fuel fiscal policy in Vietnam.

(VOV) -Danish Ambassador to Vietnam John Nielsen announced that the Scandinavian country will provide US$90 million in official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam during the 2014-2015 period.