Story | 04 Jun, 2021
Maintaining a scientific network to support policy on microplastic pollution in Viet Nam
Creating an Observatory for Measuring Plastic Occurrences in Society and Environment (COMPOSE) is a capacity building project funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by the French Embassy in Ha Noi in partnership with the…
Story | 17 May, 2021
Introducing the Vietnamese translation of the IPBES Global Assessment for Policy-makers
On April 27, 2021 in cooperation with MONRE’s Biodiversity Conservation Agency (BCA), IUCN organized a half-day workshop in Hanoi to present the Vietnamese translation of the IPBES Global Assessment for Policy-makers. The translation and workshop…
Story | 13 May, 2021
Neglected species – Sending out an SOS for a vanishingly rare primate
Gibbons are great apes. There. We’ve said it. The purists may pooh-pooh the idea, but ours isn’t a scientific definition. These so-called lesser apes may not officially rank alongside the big guns of the primate world, but in their own…
Story | 07 May, 2021
Working closely with ten organisations in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, the Building River Dialogue and Governance for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins (BRIDGE GBM) project, facilitated by IUCN, has…
Story | 06 May, 2021
Businesses consultation discusses draft decree on Extended Producer Responsibility
On December 18th 2020, IUCN, in collaboration Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) held a consultation workshop to get feedback on the draft decree of the newly established Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for…
Story | 13 Apr, 2021
In 2020, with the financial support from the Coca Cola Foundation, IUCN Viet Nam has supported upstream communities in Mekong Delta to pilot some flood-based-livelihood models in support of water retention and adapt to climate change. These livelihood models are implemented in combination with…
Story | 18 Mar, 2021
Viet Nam develops action plan on reducing plastic waste of fisheries sector
On 5 February 2021, the Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued the Decision 687/QD-BNN-TCTS to approve the action plan on marine plastic waste management in the fisheries sector (2020 – 2030). The Decision has received high appreciation from relevant stakeholders as…
Story | 25 Feb, 2021
IUCN MARPLASTICCs project Provides Institutional Frameworks Governing Marine Plastic Pollution to understand marine plastic pollution and Extended Producer Responsibility in Asia and Africa
Story | 23 Feb, 2021
Today marks the launch of the fifth Circular Economy video of the MARPLASTICCs series, and the second from South East Asia. The video showcases the work of Evergreen Labs through the ReForm Cham Island Landfill Project. Working towards transitioning waste management on Cham Island (and Hoi An)…
Story | 02 Feb, 2021
Wetlands – natural infrastructure managing water for free in the Indo-Burma region
On 2 February 2021, communities and organisations throughout the world will celebrate World Wetlands Day, with the theme Water, Wetlands and Life. The events acknowledge the importance of wetlands and their multiple ecosystem services, including the…