TAILIEUCHUNG - Investment in environmental protection: International experiences and current situation in Vietnam

The economic growth in Vietnam has not been without cost as the natural environment - forests, biodiversity and coastal zones-came under additional pressure. To address the situation with the aim of proactive prevention, the Prime Minister issued the Directive No. 25/CT-TTg, dated 31/8/2016, on some urgent missions and solutions to protect environment. In Article 3, item (c) of the Directive, the Prime Minister requested MPI “to study and regulate a specific level of environmental expenditures in total amount of investments for investment projects”. Our review of international experiences shows that the proportion of Pollution Abatement Capital Expenditures to total firms’ capital expenditures in . is about 3,5 - 5,1%. The industries requiring higher levels of environmental capital expenditures include: (1) Petroleum and coal products, (2) Primary metal industries; (3) Paper and allied products, and (4) Chemicals and allied products. In Vietnam, the level of investment in environmental protection is relatively low. Some surveys of enterprises in Vietnam show that less than 2% of all surveyed enterprises indicated the purpose of their investment to meet environmental requirements. With the lessons from international experiences, requirements on the rate (3-5%) of investment for the environment in the total investment of investment projects can be identified as one of the criteria for appraisal and approval of EIA reports of investment projects in Vietnam. | Investment in environmental protection: International experiences and current situation in Vietnam

• Môi trường
• Environmental protection
• Environment impact assessment
• Investment projects
• Current situation
• International experiences
• Environmental issues
• Environmental protection model framework
• Sporting events
• Available facilities
• Awareness of environmental protection
• Plastic waste
• Environmental protection education
• Whole society
• Plastic related products
• environmental technology
• environmental resources
• environmental emissions
• environmental specialist
• forest protection
• protection of the marine environment
• Environmental science
• Lecture Environmental science
• Natural system
• Natural world
• Protection of biodiversity
• Protection ecosystems
• Communication programs
• Climate change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Summary of the Doctoral dissertation
• Doctoral dissertation in Law
• Implementation of the law
• Law on environmental protection
• Environmental protection in industrial zones
• Current environmental protection activities
• Sociological perspective
• Community participation
• Socio economic development
• environmental impact statement
• Environmental Policy
• Environmental Quality
• environmental studies
• specializing in environmental
• forest management
• environmental protection measures
• industrial waste water
• environmental consequences
• protection
• marine environment
• Summary of Doctoral thesis
• Summary of Doctoral thesis on Politics
• Educating the consciousness
• Increase awareness of environmental protection
• Economic activities
• Energy consumption
• Economic activities in environmental protection
• Panel of 4 ASEAN economies