Nguyen The Chinh, Deputy Director General of Ministry’s Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and the Environment made the pronouncement at a participatory dialogue session held recently in Hanoi (Viet Nam).
Key measures to meet the country’s low carbon goal will include a tightening of control on means of transport, designing and constructing new urban areas with integrated green space and energy-efficient buildings, and issuing policies with orientation for greenhouse gas reduction in the energy sector, Director Chinh said.
“Encouraging the use of renewable energy and energy saving, gradually omitting outdated, energy-inefficient technologies in industry, saving energy and increasing energy efficiency in enterprises, buildings and transportation are all part of the measures,” he said.
According to the Vietnamese government, the country has a total potential wind power of one million MW and it is expected to develop 12,000 MW of wind power by 2020, equivalent to 3 percent of the country's total output.
It also has a total potential biomass power was 16,000 MW with diversified sources of rice husk, sugarcane, cassava, wood, animal waste and other agricultural waste, the government said. It plans to develop about 8,000 MW of that total by 2020, accounting for two percent of the country's total output.
Among the renewable energy projects already being undertaken in the country are a wind farm in the southern Ninh Thuan Province, a rice husk power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, a biogas plant in northern Ninh Binh Province and a biomass plant in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang. All are expected to be put into operation between 2012 and 2015.
During the same session, Nguyen Trung Thang from the Ministry’s Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment said the application of green growth was important towards a low carbon economy.
He stressed key strategies in the application of green growth, including economic growth which focuses on environmentally-friendly production, consumption behaviour adjustment and trade activities, environmental degradation reduction with policies and strategies to prevent pollution as well as strategies to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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