Topic: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

While companies have been actively advancing circular economy principles, government agencies and development partners are set to host a forum on December 10 to discuss moving from planning to action.

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment conducted 1,400 land inspections over last three years.

Vietnam is yet to have a plan for sea areas for wind power development, and there are legal and technical problems for the offshore wind power sector. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has therefore proposed suspending appraisals of offshore wind power surveys until the government promulgates a Resolution on wind measurement, observation, investigation, and geological surveys and a topographic assessment of environmental impacts at sea.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) is collecting comments to finalize the Draft Planning of the Red River - Thai Binh River Basin for the 2021-2030 period and vision to 2050, for submission to the Prime Minister for approval this month. The Draft targets that, by 2030, water resources will ensure the harmonization of benefits between localities and water users and meet demand for water for daily life and production.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has said that the draft revised Land Law has eight important new points, such as institutionalizing the policy on abolishing land price brackets; introducing mechanisms and methods to determine land prices according to market principles; and establishing a synchronous legal corridor to shift the focus from administrative-heavy management methods to the use of economic tools to manage and regulate land relations, among others.

On August 8, while working with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on amending and supplementing the Land Law, National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue emphasized that the revised law is extremely important and the draft will be considered and discussed by the NA at three sessions, not at one session, as with other bills. The goal is to complete the adjustments of related laws next year.

At the 5th National Environment Conference, held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on August 4, Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh emphasized that having a green economy, a circular economy, and a low carbon economy is the best way to ensure sustainable economic development, and that the environment would not be sacrificed for growth.