Optimizing productivity for green and sustainable manufacturing
Amid rising input material costs and increasingly stringent sustainability requirements, Vietnamese enterprises are facing a new challenge: optimizing productivity while greening production. Rather than viewing productivity and environmental performance as separate objectives, integrating these two factors is becoming a critical management solution that helps businesses enhance competitiveness and achieve sustainable development. Productivity and green production: […]
Why should businesses transition to a circular economy?
As the global economy faces increasing pressure from resource scarcity, climate change, and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, the traditional linear economic model of “take – make – consume – dispose” has revealed significant limitations. In contrast, the circular economy is emerging as an inevitable pathway, enabling businesses to optimize operational performance while creating long-term sustainable […]
Greenwashing: Spotting fake sustainability claims
As climate change becomes an increasingly urgent global challenge, green consumption is emerging as a dominant trend. According to surveys, up to 70% of consumers are willing to pay a premium for environmentally friendly products. However, this growing expectation has also created opportunities for a negative phenomenon known as “Greenwashing.” The Origin of the Term […]
“BRIDGE for Cities – Belt and Road Initiative: Developing Green Economies for Cities”
“BRIDGE for Cities – Belt and Road Initiative: Developing Green Economies for Cities” event organized conjointly by UNIDO and the Finance Center for South-South Cooperation. The annual “BRIDGE for Cities” event aims to advance the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals as well as the New Urban Agenda. The 2nd “BRIDGE […]
106 poor families received financial support from SUPA – a EU-funded project
The first pilot pangasius batch that was raised and harvested in a model farm under the EU-funded project – “Establishing a Sustainable Pangasius Supply Chain in Vietnam” (SUPA) […]
World’s coal power plants consume enough freshwater to sustain 1 billion people – Greenpeace
The world’s rapidly dwindling freshwater resources could be further depleted if plans for hundreds of new coal power plants worldwide go ahead, threatening severe drought and competition, according to[…]
The Global Atlas for Renewable Energy
The Global Atlas for Renewable Energy is an initiative coordinated by IRENA, aimed at closing the gap between nations having access to the necessary datasets, expertise and financial support to[…]
Vietnam rice boom heaping pressure on farmers, environment
Rice farmer Nguyen Hien Thien is so busy growing his crops that he has never even visited Can Tho, a town only a few miles from his farm in the[…]
As Vietnam struggles to attract foreign tourists, more Vietnamese take overseas trips
While Vietnam has been losing its tourism appeal to holidaymakers worldwide, tourists from the Southeast Asian country are valued customers of many tour organizers in other countries as they are[…]
“Low carbon transition in energy efficiency sector in Vietnam” programme (2013-2015)
Denmark strengthens its support for Vietnam’s Green Growth through a new programme handling energy efficiency in Small and Medium Enterprises and in large buildings.
