Lauching the REDD+ Community Carbon Pools Program in Vietnam
New regional initiative aims to share the benefits of reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Energy companies pledge to measure impacts of large dam projects
Critics say new scorecard to evaluate social and environmental impacts of hydropower projects serves dam builders not local communities.
The First Mekong Resources Forum: Water Resources and Sustainable Development – Perspectives from Laos and Vietnam
Water is vital for all livings, development and prosperity of every nation. Water sources from rivers, lakes and wetlands not only maintain ecological functions and biodiversity, but also supply water for domestic uses, agricultural production, energy and navigation; ensure food…
Policy Review QIII/2011, English Edition
In the 3rd quarter of 2011, more than 50 legal and administrative documents on natural resources, environmental management and sustainable development in Vietnam were released by government agencies. Main issues addressed by these documents include plans, proposals and measures in…
Crucial Meeting Tomorrow on Laos’s Xayaburi Dam
Wide-ranging coalition calls for the dam to be cancelled. A crucial meeting takes place tomorrow in Siem Reap, Cambodia, among the ministers of the Mekong River Commission on whether to proceed with the US$3.5 billion Xayaburi Dam, the first of…
Save the Mekong Coalition Calls on MRC Council: Pass Resolution to Cancel Xayaburi Dam
Press Release: For Immediate Release [6 December 2011] As the Ministers of the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) Council prepare to meet tomorrow to discuss whether to proceed with the Xayaburi Dam, the Save the Mekong coalition, a network of civil…
Fuelled by Forests
The past 20 years in Vietnam have been remarkable. The economy has expanded by an average of 7 percent annually since the mid-1990s and according to the Vietnam Development Report 2011, “poverty has fallen drastically from 60 percent in 1993…
Free job and opportunity announcement service for NGOs
Dear friends and colleagues, People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) has run the environmental news website ThienNhien.Net since the organization started. The website has its traffic of about 2 millions pageviews per year and increasing. We are maintaining a section in…
Video Report on the Roundtable on Mekong Dams
A news report by VTC about the policy roundtable "Mainstream Mekong Dams: Implications on Livelihoods, Food Security and Regional Stability" organized by PanNature and the Institute of Legislative Studies (a research body of the National Assembly of Vietnam) on 4th…
Government urged to take actions to prevent rivers from degrading
Experts have rung the alarm bell over the “health” of the river system in Vietnam, saying that a lot of rivers are perceptibly degrading.