Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the third Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Summit on October 26 as part of the 47th ASEAN Summit and related summits in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The AZEC Summit saw the participation of 11 member countries within the AZEC framework, including Australia, Japan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The AZEC initiative, launched in 2023, is a multilateral cooperation mechanism aimed at supporting Asian countries in addressing three challenges: ensuring economic growth, ensuring energy security, and pursuing economy-wide decarbonization based on the perspective of "One Goal, Multiple Pathways".
Within this framework, AZEC member states reaffirmed their commitment to diverse and practical pathways towards net-zero emissions, taking into account each nation's unique circumstances, existing goals or policies, and developmental challenges including geographical, economic, technological, institutional, social, and equity factors.
Heads of delegations acknowledged and welcomed the outcomes of the 3rd AZEC Ministerial Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on October 17.
At the closing session of the summit, the delegation heads adopted the 3rd AZEC Summit Joint Statement, which welcomed the progress made since the 2nd AZEC Summit and emphasized the need to accelerate actions in this crucial decade based on the "Action Plan for the Next Decade" adopted at the 2nd AZEC Summit, and in accordance with the policies of AZEC partner countries.
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