Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on the international community to join hands to improve pandemic prevention and response capacity, especially in developing countries, in an address to the UN High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in New York on September 20 (local time), the Government News has reported.

The meeting was organized as part of the high-level week of the 78th UN General Assembly.

Prime Minister Chinh proposed giving priority to promoting timely and equal access to vaccines, improving treatment capacity, public awareness, technology transfer, and vaccine and medicine production capacity, and providing effective financial support for developing and underdeveloped countries.

He emphasized Vietnam’s support for appealing to the international community to list global health security as a priority so as to quickly prevent, prepare for, and effectively respond to epidemics and pandemics.

On the same day, Prime Minister Chinh attended the Climate Ambition Summit at UN headquarters in New York.

He suggested that a global and universal approach with breakthrough, general, comprehensive, and innovative solutions is required for coping with climate change.

He proposed that developed countries and international organizations assist developing and underdeveloped countries with green technology, green finance, green management, the training of green human resources, and the development of the renewable energy industry and smart grid networks.

The Prime Minister also suggested building new-generation partnerships and stepping up the mobilization of green climate finance via the public-private partnership form.

Developed countries and international partners need to double the available finance for climate change adaptation activities by 2025 and put the Fund for Loss and Damage into operation at COP28, as committed, in order to help developing and underdeveloped countries recover from the consequences of climate change, he said.

Vietnam is determined to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 43.5 per cent by 2030, and raise the rate of renewable energy to over 70 per cent by 2050, he added.