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Policy Review 13: People’s Participation in Environmental Monitoring and Protection

The Center for People and Nature (PanNature) would like to introduce to you the Policy Bulletin on Natural Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development No. 13, Quarter I/2014.

Main content of this Newsletter:

  • Lack of people’s participation in environmental management and monitoring
  • Environmental assessment in the revised Bill of Environmental Protection: Edited and not yet revised
  • Nature conservation management: need to gain a relationship
  • Strategy Management of special forest systems, marine protected areas, inland water conservation areas
  • Continue innovating to improve the operational efficiency of agro-forestry companies
  • Strengthening direction for implementation of replacement afforestation
  • Importing wood from Cambodia is not allowed to apply for a permit
  • Approving the General Regulation to ensure the existence of BD
  • Vietnam accedes to the Nagoya Protocol
  • Strengthening control and conservation of endangered, precious and rare wildlife
  • Implementation plan of the National Environmental Protection Strategy
  • New regulations on organization and operation of the Environmental Protection Fund
  • Approving the area not to auction production exploitation rights
  • Action plan to improve the efficiency of management, protection and use of water resources
  • Action program on management, investment and transportation of hydropower projects
  • Action program on climate change response, resource management and environmental protection
  • Report on implementation of policies and laws on application of climate change in wild areas
  • Approving the socio-economic development planning of three key economic regions
  • National action plan on green growth 2014-2020
  • List of legal documents prohibited in the first quarter of 2014
  • Policy projects are under construction

 

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