Vietnam is grappling with a critical plastic waste crisis. Each year, the country generates 1.8 million tonnes of plastic waste, about one-third of which ends up in the ocean. This constitutes 6 per cent of global marine plastic pollution and makes it the world’s fourth-largest emitter.
Not only does this exacerbate Vietnam’s environmental challenges, but it also casts a shadow over its international reputation as the nation has pledged robust commitments to sustainable dvelopment and the green transition.
A drill rig stands at a Fervo Energy geothermal site under construction near Milford, Utah, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. In Nevada, Fervo’s first operational pilot project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the state’s grid to power Google data centers, Google announced Tuesday, Nov. 28. Fervo is using the Nevada pilot to launch larger projects like this one in Utah. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)
BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTTUpdated 1:20 AM GMT+7, November 29, 2023Share
An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Tuesday.
Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never reach, said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder of Google’s geothermal partner in the project, Houston-based Fervo Energy.
“I think it will be big and it will continue to vault geothermal into a lot more prominence than it has been,” Latimer said in an interview.
Châu Phi vốn luôn là một trong những khu vực ảnh hưởng truyền thống của Pháp trong nhiều thập kỷ qua, đặc biệt là tại khu vực Tây Phi và vùng Sahel. Sách Trắng về quốc phòng của Pháp vài năm qua luôn coi châu Phi là khu vực có tầm quan trọng chiến lược lớn thứ hai với nước Pháp, chỉ sau châu Âu. Do đó, việc duy trì quan hệ và ảnh hưởng của Pháp với các quốc gia châu Phi luôn là một trong những ưu tiên hàng đầu trong chính sách đối ngoại của chính quyền Tổng thống Macron.
Tổng thống Pháp giới thiệu về chính sách mới với châu Phi.
Tuy nhiên, trong vài năm trở lại đây, quan hệ giữa Pháp với nhiều quốc gia châu Phi vốn là thuộc địa cũ không những không được cải thiện mà còn xấu đi.
TTCT – Tham vọng tiến ra biển của Campuchia đã có người giúp, đó là Trung Quốc, với một dự án cực kỳ tham vọng.
Hôm 17-10, tại thủ đô Phnom Penh của Campuchia, Ủy ban liên bộ Campuchia do Phó thủ tướng Sun Chanthol đứng đầu đã ký kết thỏa thuận với đại diện Tổng công ty Cầu đường Trung Quốc (CRBC) về dự thảo khung xây dựng kênh đào nối ra biển Phù Nam Techo.
Thỏa thuận này sẽ cho phép CRBC tiến hành nghiên cứu chuyên sâu về tất cả các khía cạnh của dự án trong vòng 8 tháng. Dự án kênh đào Phù Nam Techo ước tính sẽ tiêu tốn khoảng 1,7 tỉ USD và mất 4 năm để hoàn thành.
Đây là dự án cơ sở hạ tầng lớn đầu tiên của Campuchia kết nối sông Mekong với đường biển, nhằm mở rộng tiềm năng vận tải biển của đất nước chùa tháp.
Cao tốc Phnom Penh – Sihanouvkville. Ảnh: Twitter
Trước đây, dự án này mang tên Hệ thống giao thông và hậu cần sông Bassac (BRNLS). Tại phiên họp toàn thể lần thứ 6 của Quốc hội Campuchia ngày 19-5-2023, dự án được đặt tên lại là “Kênh đào Phù Nam Techo”.
Đây cũng là tên chính thức của kênh đào đến nay. Ngày 7-6, thủ tướng sắp mãn nhiệm Hun Sen thành lập ủy ban liên bộ nghiên cứu và thực hiện dự án gồm 37 thành viên để xem xét và tư vấn về thủ tục, khung pháp lý và đánh giá hiệu quả kinh tế nhằm thúc đẩy sự phát triển của ngành vận tải đường thủy và đường biển của Campuchia.
Oil and gas producers face pivotal choices about their role in the global energy system amid a worsening climate crisis fuelled in large part by their core products, according to our major new special report.
The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions finds that the oil and gas sector – which provides more than half of global energy supply and employs nearly 12 million workers worldwide – has been a marginal force at best in transitioning to an energy system with net zero emissions, accounting for just 1% of clean energy investment globally.
The report shows how the industry can take a more responsible approach and contribute positively to the new energy economy, highlighting that the UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai is “a moment of truth” for the oil and gas sector.To start, all oil and gas companies should commit to tackling emissions from their own operations, according to the report. These emissions need to decline by 60% by 2030 to align with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. Companies also need to dramatically change how they allocate their financial resources. In 2022, clean energy investments accounted for a mere 2.5% of the industry’s total capital spending. The report finds that producers looking to align with the aims of the Paris Agreement would need to put 50% of capital expenditures towards clean energy projects by 2030.What’s more, companies must abandon the notion that they can continue with business as usual simply by ramping up the deployment of carbon capture technologies.
The report finds that if oil and gas consumption were to evolve as projected under today’s policy settings, limiting warming to 1.5 °C would require an entirely inconceivable 32 billion tonnes of carbon capture by 2050, with annual investment rising from $4 billion last year to $3.5 trillion.Opportunities lie ahead despite these challenges, however. Nearly a third of the energy consumed in 2050 in a decarbonised energy system comes from technologies that could benefit from the oil and gas industry’s skills and resources, including hydrogen, offshore wind and liquid biofuels.
Global supplies of rice are facing its most significant shortage in two decades, exacerbating food insecurity fears. Rice is a staple food for over half the world’s population. India’s export bans sent shockwaves through markets as some argue the country is using food as a political pawn. America’s $34 billion rice industry must compete against the same market uncertainty while managing droughts, floods and changing temperatures. Watch this video to learn more about how global rice markets influence food security, geopolitics and the livelihoods of millions of farmers.
Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza has killed nearly 15,000 people, including 10,000 women and children, in over 50 days, making it the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave till date.
Israel has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as a four-day humanitarian truce comes to an end on November 28. It is unclear whether the truce will be extended.
VGP – Below is the Joint Statement on the elevation of their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia and the world on the occasion of official visit to Japan by President Vo Van Thuong and his spouse.
NOVEMBER 27, 2023 9:57 PM GMT+7
At the invitation of Japan, H.E. Mr. Vo Van Thuong, President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, and Madam Phan Thi Thanh Tam made an official visit to Japan from 27 to 30 November 2023. During the visit, Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress meet with and host a court luncheon in honor of President Vo Van Thuong and Madam. H.E. Mr. KISHIDA Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, and President Vo Van Thuong attended the ceremony by Guard of Honor, held the summit meeting, attended the joint press conference, and witnessed the signing ceremony of cooperation documents. President Vo Van Thuong also delivered his policy speech at the National Diet of Japan and visited Fukuoka Prefecture.
The visit by President Vo Van Thuong and Madam took place as numerous activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations (established on 21 September 1973) were being coordinated between Japan and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Building on the outstanding achievements of the bilateral ties across all areas over the past 50 years, given the great potential for cooperation, with the firm belief in the bright future of the bilateral relations, and with the aim of meeting the demand of the peoples of the two countries, President Vo Van Thuong and Prime Minister Kishida confirmed to adopt the Joint Statement on the Elevation of the Japan-Viet Nam relations to a “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the World” at the summit meeting on 27 November 2023, thereby affirming both countries’ endeavors to bring the current cooperation between the two countries in all areas to new heights and to further expand it to new fronts.
By Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
Illustrated portraits of Reps. MIke Gallagher, right, and Raja Krishnamoorthi
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On an overcast day in late October, I headed up to Capitol Hill to report on what might be the last pocket of functioning governance in Congress: the House of Representatives’ China Committee.
Reps. Mike Gallagher, a Republican, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat, are the chair and ranking member of what is basically the hottest ticket in Washington. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which is its full name, was the brainchild of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and is focused exclusively on how to map out a new era of U.S. competition with China. It’s a task almost everyone in Washington is on board with, which has made at least some U.S. allies and partners around the world very uneasy, fearful of being dragged into a Cold War 2.0.
Some American experts and officials bristle at the new Cold War moniker; others begrudgingly accept it. But whatever you call it, the new era of U.S. competition with China represents the most significant strategic shift in American foreign policy in decades. Congress wants to carve out its role in the action, and on that front Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are in the driver’s seat.
I met the two lawmakers in the Krishnamoorthi’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Krishnamoorthi’s office is adorned with paraphernalia, including flags and local snacks from his home district in the Chicago suburbs, the Illinois 8th. Gallagher is a fellow Midwesterner and represents Wisconsin’s 8th district.
NDO – Học sinh là con trong các gia đình bạo lực vừa có thể là người chứng kiến, vừa là đối tượng bị bạo lực, bị bỏ rơi. Do đó việc ngăn chặn, giải quyết bạo lực gia đình là một mắt xích rất quan trọng.
Thứ ba, ngày 07/11/2023 –
Chiều 7/11, Quốc hội tiếp tục tiến hành Phiên chất vấn và trả lời chất vấn. Đại biểu Vương Quốc Thắng (đoàn Quảng Nam) đặt câu hỏi tại sao “tình trạng bạo lực học đường diễn ra phức tạp” như trong Báo cáo của Chính phủ gửi đại biểu Quốc hội đã nêu.
Đại biểu Thắng thắc mắc những nguyên nhân gây ra tình trạng này và chất vấn Bộ trưởng Giáo dục và Đào tạo về hướng khắc phục “thật căn cơ” trong thời gian tới.
Đại biểu Vương Quốc Thắng (đoàn Quảng Nam).
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Ten years ago, USAID unveiled the largest contract in its history, aimed at transforming health supply chains in lower-income countries. It has not gone according to plan.
Within its first two years of operation, the largest-ever project funded by the United States Agency for International Development was in crisis.
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The $9.5 billion initiative is led by U.S. contractor Chemonics International. Its aim was to transform global health supply chains — the sprawling system of procurement and transport that delivers lifesaving products including HIV/AIDS drugs, mosquito nets, and contraceptives to millions around the globe.
The supply chain project serves as the backbone for the U.S. government’s most celebrated global health programs, including the HIV/AIDS initiative credited with saving 25 million lives. But this project aimed to go one step further, by improving supply chains in lower-income countries to the point that they could be managed by the countries themselves.
If successful, said one USAID official, the agency would never have to fund another project like it again. But a decade later, that has not come to pass.
Gần hai năm rưỡi trôi qua kể từ khi quân đội Myanmar (Tatmadaw) tiến hành đảo chính lật đổ chính phủ dân sự dưới sự lãnh đạo của bà Aung San Suu Kyi, đất nước Myanmar chìm trong những cuộc giao tranh đẫm máu giữa Tatmadaw và Lực lượng phòng vệ nhân dân (PDF). Kết quả là đến nay, nhiều vùng lãnh thổ rộng lớn đã nằm trong tay PDF…
HÀ NỘI — Infrastructure, planning and a market mechanism were among key issues that must be addressed in order to develop a market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Việt Nam, heard participants at a conference on LNG on Wednesday in Hà Nội.
Thị Vải Terminal, an LNG storage facility in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu. — VNA/VNS Photo
Deputy head of the Electricity and Renewable Energy Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Bùi Quốc Hùng said the importation of LNG must follow international trade standards and regulations while Việt Nam is still lacking in many key areas including design, construction, and operation of infrastructure for LNG imports.
What is more impressive is that some EM groups with a population of fewer than 1,000 have had a say in the legislative body.
EM deputies from Cao Bằng Province in their meeting with the president in 2022. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất
HÀ NỘI — Ethnic minorities’ (EM) representation in the National Assembly (NA) is a fundamental tenet of Việt Nam’s political doctrine; the country has spared no effort in ensuring they are presented from the top.
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