It is part of the component 1 of JICA’s technical cooperation project on “Support the Planning and Implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Manner (SPI-NAMA)”.
This assessment has been jointly conducted by the Department of Climate Change (DCC) under MONRE and JICA since September 2016 with an aim to facilitate the implementation of Vietnam’s mitigation targets which were defined in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015.
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The two sides have studied possible low carbon technologies, which could implement 45 mitigation options of the NDC in the sectors of energy, agriculture, land use and forestry, and waste. In addition, they also assessed fluorocarbons (F-gases) which have larger impacts than CO2 as one of low carbon technologies.
Throughout the assessment works, DCC and JICA facilitated the communications and coordination among relevant stakeholders including concerned Ministries and private sector via sector-based in-depth discussions and multi-stakeholder dialogues to identify appropriate low carbon technologies for their sectoral mitigation actions. As a result, capacity of relevant Ministries for planning and implementation of sectoral mitigation action plans has been enhanced.
Taking the sectoral needs and priorities, the assessment has produced a catalogue of prioritized low carbon technologies with potential application in Vietnam.
“This low carbon technology assessment is not only a very useful and practical reference for the ongoing review and update process of the NDC led by MONRE but also will contribute to the implementation of the Government Decree on Roadmap for GHG emission reduction”, said Mr. Nguyen Van Tue, DCC Director General.
He also highly appreciated JICA’s supports for this survey, adding that by actively involving in the assessment process, MONRE’s facilitation capacity for future implementation of mitigation actions required by the Paris Agreement has been strengthened.
JICA expects MONRE and relevant agencies to continue their leadership in bringing NDC into concrete mitigation actions through low carbon technologies introduction moving towards a low-carbon society in Vietnam./.
Under the decisions under the UNFCCC, all Parties were invited to communicate their (Intended) Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which consist of climate actions for the post-2020 with an aim of keeping a global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.