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The main contributor to the country's emissions is fossil fuel combustion, which accounted for about 60% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2014. [3] As of 2018, the electricity sector accounted for 48% of Vietnam's CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, industry for 28%, transport 16%, the residential sector 4%, the commercial sector 3%, and agriculture 1%. [3]
Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972.
The following table lists the annual CO 2 emissions estimates (in kilotons of CO 2 per year) for the year 2023, as well as the change from the year 2000. [ 4 ] The data only consider carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture , but not emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry .
Vietnam has been ranked among the five countries likely to be most affected by climate change, according to the World Bank, and like many of its Southeast Asian neighbors, Vietnam’s emissions ...
On 19 June 2022, at a press briefing, U.S. Department of State spokesperson Ned Price issued a statement calling for the release of Khanh and other climate activists. On 20 June, the Climate Action Network condemned Vietnam's conviction and imprisonment of Khanh, and called for the immediate release of her and other civil society activists detained by the Vietnamese government.
A Vietnamese climate activist was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison on charges of tax fraud, state media reported. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, 50, who headed the environmental advocacy group ...
Environmental issues relating to free trade: Vietnam is committed to multilateral environmental agreements, including those on climate change and biodiversity, [40] including the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement and Investment Protection Agreement. To comply with these commitments, Vietnam would need strengthen regulations and enforcement on the ...
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