Memorandum aims to facilitate and promote cooperation in the sector and effectively implement the Paris Agreement and SDGs.
As part of the visit to Japan by General Secretary and State President To Lam and the spouse from November 8 to 11, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Viet Nam and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment signed a MoU in the environmental sector.
On November 9, in the presence of General Secretary and State President To Lam and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, Minister of Agriculture and Environment Trinh Viet Hung and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment leader exchanged the MoU.
Minister of Agriculture and Environment Trinh Viet Hung and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment leader exchanged the MoU in the environmental sector. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA.The Memorandum aims to strengthen, facilitate and promote cooperation between the two countries in the environmental sector, while reaffirming the importance of actions to effectively implement the Paris Agreement and the SDGs.
Under the agreement, the two sides will promote cooperation in eight areas, including climate change mitigation and adaptation; measurement, reporting and verification (MRV); and the development of low-carbon technologies, decarbonization and carbon markets, including the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
Other areas of cooperation include the management of municipal solid waste, electronic waste and industrial waste to promote a circular economy; the control of water and air pollution, marine litter and plastic pollution; and the development of environmental technologies, environmental remediation, environmental incident response, monitoring systems and early warning systems.
General Secretary and State President To Lam introduces members of the Viet Nam high-level delegation to Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA.The two sides will also strengthen cooperation in environmental protection planning, environmental impact assessment and environmentally sustainable urban development. Other areas include biodiversity conservation, the management of invasive alien species, protected areas, community-based natural resource management, access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing from their utilization, biosafety, and other areas as mutually agreed.
To implement the cooperation agenda, the two sides will encourage and facilitate various forms of cooperation, subject to available resources. These will include regular policy dialogues; exchanges of information and expertise; training; policy analysis; feasibility studies; technical cooperation; technology transfer; and capacity building.
The Memorandum reflects the shared commitment of Viet Nam and Japan to strengthening cooperation in environmental protection and improvement, responding to climate change and advancing sustainable development.