Emissions from motorcycles and cars are leading reason causing air pollution in Ho Chi Minh city (Photo: vnexpress.net)
At the conference, the delegates focused on how to encourage businesses to use green energy and save energy.
The delegates suggested technical aid, which will be provided to help businesses and households access and use energy-saving products, green gadgets and environment-friendly products.
In addition, the conference aimed to raise awareness of energy efficiency and programs for energy efficiency to reduce consumption in the community.
Moreover, the organizers also introduced measures to reduce solid wastes at source through education, encourage the use of renewable products and raise the public’s awareness of sorting waste at source and reducing waste.
Experts at the conference also encouraged the public to recycle and reuse products and minimize the impacts caused by solid wastes on the environment.
At the event businesses were encouraged to create a market for recycled products and urged private firms to recycle products for this market.
In the field of transportation, awareness of people should be raised about reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It should encourage them to limit the use of private vehicles and develop public transport.
It also discussed how to encourage fuel efficiency and gradually eliminate obsolete vehicles that consume too much fuel, advocate the use of biological and clean fuels and investment in green energy to run traffic lights.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment called on relevant authorities to adopt preferential policies and otherwise support businesses’ recycling efforts through incentives such as reduction of land use rents and taxes and technical support for the recycling.
Under the greenhouse-gas emission scenario, Vietnam is expected to emit 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2018, 500 million tonnes by 2020, 600 million tonnes by 2025, and 800 million tonnes by 2030, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Ho Chi Minh city now emits 38.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, accounting for nearly 13 percent of the country’s total, the ministry said./.