A workshop on “Introduction of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)”, co-organized by the Consultancy on Development (CODE) and the Centre for People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) has taken place in Hanoi. The workshop was attended by numerous experts and…
Though Vietnam has a close legal framework on protecting forests and wildlife, the laws seem unhelpful. Green forests still have been devastated, while wild animals still have been killed.
Vietnam could face a fresh water crisis because of poor resource management, a new report says. It says the problem could be exacerbated by the fact that most of its rivers originate in neighboring countries who could build upstream dams…
Farmers continue to bear the brunt of environmental damage, protected poorly by toothless regulations.
Critics say new scorecard to evaluate social and environmental impacts of hydropower projects serves dam builders not local communities.
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…
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…
Experts have rung the alarm bell over the “health” of the river system in Vietnam, saying that a lot of rivers are perceptibly degrading.
With the success of the pilot project on allocating land and forests to the community for management, experts believe that the “community forest” is really the good mechanism for sustainable forest management.
People are trying to build more and more hydropower plants to satisfy their thirst for power. However, when power plants are set up, the environment gets degrading and the tourism industry cannot develop.