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The recently-released FTA Index 2025 highlights both the progress made in local implementation and the gaps still evident in businesses’ ability to turn trade commitments into tangible opportunities.

There is much potential in using the carbon sinks created by Vietnam’s vast forest coverage to generate new financial resources.

A recent report found that lowering trade barriers to climate-resilient technologies, expertise, and data could help Vietnam’s agricultural sector respond to rising climate risks.

With its carbon exchange opened just recently, Vietnam is now working to ensure that the building blocks of a carbon market are in place.

Vietnam’s infrastructure funding needs are substantial, and alternative capital sources must be identified and encouraged and pressing issues resolved.

On the occasion of the World Ozone Day (September 16), Mr. Nguyen Tuan Quang, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, discusses a new approach to sustainable cooling with Vietnam Economic Times / VnEconomy and the drivers and opportunities it presents for businesses.