Chuyên mục: Phát triển bền vững – Sustainable development

World Bank – New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 10, number 1 (2018 January 8)

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Agriculture and Rural development

• Market implications of the integration scenario of Southeast Asian rice markets.
• Understanding smallholder farmers’ capacity to respond to climate change in a coastal community in Central Vietnam.
• The water-land-food nexus of natural rubber production.
• Assessment of household risk management strategies for coastal aquaculture: the case of clam farming in Thaibinh Province, Vietnam.
• Agroforestry: Contribution to food security and climate-change adaptation and mitigation in Southeast Asia: WHITE PAPER.
• The role of State Forest Enterprises in the payments for Forest Environmental Services Programme in Vietnam.
• Enhancing farmers’ market power and income in the pig value chain; a case study in Bac Giang province, Vietnam.
• The political economy of policy exceptionalism during economic transition: the case of rice policy in Vietnam.
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World Bank – New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 9, number 24 (2017 December 20)

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      • Impact of International Experience and Innovation Capacity on the Export Performance of Vietnamese Agricultural SMEs.
      • Impact of Climate Change on the Technical Efficiency of Striped Catfish, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
      • Designing river flows to improve food security futures in the Lower Mekong Basin.
      • Effectiveness and efficiency of community-based forest management in Hoang Lien National Park, Lao Cai Province.
      • Synergies among climate change and biodiversity conservation measures and policies in the forest sector: A case study of Southeast Asian countries.
      • Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam.

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Tuyên bố Các tổ chức xã hội Đông Nam Á và Sáng kiến Liên minh các nước Nói không với điện than do Vương Quốc Anh và Canada khởi xướng

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Các tổ chức xã hội Đông Nam Á và Sáng kiến Liên minh các nước Nói không với điện than do Vương Quốc Anh và Canada khởi xướng

Chúng tôi, những tổ chức kí tên dưới đây, hoan nghênh sáng kiến Liên minh các nước nói không với điện than do Vương quốc Anh và Canada khởi xướng. Những quốc gia này một lần nữa nhấn mạnh sự cần thiết của việc cắt giảm cacbon và loại bỏ than đối với tất cả quốc gia trên thế giới. Đối với các quốc gia phát triển, đây là yêu cầu cấp thiết cần phải hoàn thành trước năm 2030, đối với các quốc gia còn lại thời hạn sẽ là năm 2050. Tuy nhiên chúng tôi kêu gọi các quốc gia đẩy nhanh hơn nữa thời hạn loại bỏ điện than để mục tiêu 100% năng lượng tái tạo có thể được hiện thực hóa trước năm 2030 đối với các quốc gia phát triển và trước năm 2050 đối với các quốc gia đang phát triển.
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Nation zeroes in on hunger elimination

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Dũng speaks at the first meeting of the National Steering Committee for the ten year (2016-2025) Zero Hunger Action Programme in Hà Nội yesterday. — Photo toquoc.vn

HÀ NỘI — Poverty alleviation and hunger eradication has been a consistent priority for Viet Nam and the country is committed to achieving these goals in co-operation with the international community, Deputy PM Trịnh Đình Dũng said in Hà Nội yesterday.

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Germany’s Transition from Coal to Renewables Offers Lessons for the World

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Germany's Transition from Coal to Renewables Offers Lessons for the World
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From Ensia (find the original story here), from an article commissioned by Courier; reprinted with permission.

August 1, 2017—Seventy-seven-year-old Heinz Spahn—whose blue eyes are both twinkling and stern—vividly recalls his younger days. The Zollverein coal mine, where he worked in the area of Essen, Germany, was so clogged with coal dust, he remembers, that people would stir up a black cloud whenever they moved. “It was no pony farm,” he says—using the sardonic German phrase to describe the harsh conditions: The roar of machines was at a constant 110 decibels, and the men were nicknamed waschbar, or “raccoons,” for the black smudges that permanently adorned their faces. Tiếp tục đọc “Germany’s Transition from Coal to Renewables Offers Lessons for the World” →

Cuộc thi “Ý tưởng Sáng tạo Xanh trong môi trường Học tập và Làm việc”

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The Climate – Justice – Cooperation Nexus: 10 Cornerstones of the Great Transformation towards Sustainability

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The challenge of our generation: Avert dangerous global warming – invest in social cohesion and wellbeing of people – build local, national, and transnational alliances for transformative change towards sustainability

1. We can reach the goals of the Paris Agreement – but ambitious action is needed now! Climate change is a threat to humanity. Irreversible Earth systems changes need to be avoided. This is a civilisational challenge which requires unprecedented joint action around the globe. We are under huge time pressure. Global CO2 emissions must decline to zero by mid-century in order to achieve the ambitious Paris goal, aimed at stabilising the global mean temperature well below 2 degrees C, and if possible at 1.5 degrees C. This translates into a stylised “carbon law”, whereby emissions must be halved every decade in analogy to the Moore’s law of semiconductors. We have the resources and the technology to achieve this, but do we have the political will and the resolve? Recent developments, such as the declaration by the US President to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, can be interpreted as a major setback. At the same time, they may inspire counter-movements, strengthening the determination to vigorously combat climate change. In particular, OECD countries and emerging economies should make commitments within the G 20 and within their national policies to ensure the achievement of global decarbonisation by the middle of the century. Tiếp tục đọc “The Climate – Justice – Cooperation Nexus: 10 Cornerstones of the Great Transformation towards Sustainability” →

The architecture of resilience

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Published on Monday, 04 December 2017

View of Chandigarh High Court from Secretariat. Photo by Eduardo Guiot.
View of Chandigarh High Court from Secretariat. Photo by Eduardo Guiot.

ADB.org_Southern Meghalaya in far northeastern India is one of the wettest places on Earth, crisscrossed by fast-flowing rivers and mountain streams. Here bridges aren’t built – they’re grown, ensuring connectivity in a remote area.

Local tribes identified a species of Indian rubber tree with an incredibly strong root system that flourishes in this region. The roots of the ficus elastic grow on huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers.

To make the roots grow in the right direction, local tribes use different techniques from simply pulling the roots to tying or twisting them, until over time the roots formed the desired architectural structure.

Root bridges, also used in Indonesia, are a great example of how green infrastructure can provide alternative solutions to deliver sustainable connectivity. The normal course in Meghalaya would have been a bridge, but that would have been difficult and expensive in such areas.

  Green infrastructure not yet core part of urban infrastructure planning

Unfortunately, this approach is the exception rather than the rule. Green infrastructure today falls short of being a part of urban infrastructure core planning and asset inventory. It lacks provisions for long-term maintenance and management, as is done for other essential services.

When I studied architecture and urban planning in Chandigarh, an Indian city designed in 1966 by the famous Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, I realized that cities are like people. They have interlinked systems with dependencies on nature – land, air, and water. Tiếp tục đọc “The architecture of resilience” →

World Bank – New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 9, number 23 (2017 December 6)

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• Chapter 10 – How Agricultural Research for Development Can Make a Change: Assessing Livelihood Impacts in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “World Bank – New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 9, number 23 (2017 December 6)” →

Conserving Forests Could Cut Carbon Emissions As Much As Getting Rid of Every Car on Earth

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By Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris and Octavia Payne

Cantonal Hojancha was once a major cattle ranching region. Most of this area was cleared for pasture only 30 years ago. Now, many of the residents have moved into the service industry, and the pasture land has slowly converted back to forest. Photo by Aaron Minnick (World Resources Institute)

New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars—more than all of the cars in the world today!

In fact, forests are key to at least six of the study’s 20 “natural climate solutions,” which could collectively reduce 11.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. That’s as much as halting global oil consumption, and would get us one-third of the way toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels — the threshold for avoiding catastrophic effects of climate change — by 2030.

Stopping Deforestation Offers the Biggest Benefit

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Global Tree Cover Loss Remains High. Emerging Patterns Reveal Shifting Contributors.

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by Mikaela Weisse Mikaela Weisse, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Nancy Harris, Matt Hansen, Peter Potapov and Svetlana Turubanova – July 17, 2017
       
Aguaje trees in Peru. Flickr/CIFOR
Aguaje trees in Peru. Flickr/CIFOR

Global Forest Watch released new satellite-based data showing how forests around the world changed in the year 2015. The data, produced through the analysis of roughly a million satellite images by the University of Maryland and Google, measures the death or removal of trees at least 5 meters tall within 30×30 meter areas. This can capture any number of sustainable or unsustainable activities, from the clearing of natural forests to the harvest of tree plantations, but when analyzed appropriately with other contextual data and information can serve as a proxy for deforestation (typically defined as the permanent conversion of forest land for another use). Tiếp tục đọc “Global Tree Cover Loss Remains High. Emerging Patterns Reveal Shifting Contributors.” →

Give women greater role in industry to cut poverty, urges UN executive

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Only about half of the world’s women are in the labour force compared to about 75 percent of men

By Belinda Goldsmith

VIENNA, Nov 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women need to be given a greater role in industries in poorer nations to meet the global goal of cutting poverty by 2030, the head of the United Nations industrial development agency said on Monday after being voted in for a second term.

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Báo chí với mục tiêu phát triển bền vững

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Chỉ trong 1 thập niên từ 2006-2016, trên toàn thế giới đã có gần 930 nhà báo bị giết trong khi đang tác nghiệp. Nhận thức được tầm quan trọng của vấn đề, Bộ Thông tin và Truyền thông Việt Nam đã hợp tác cùng UNESCO- tổ chức tiên phong thực hiện kế hoạch hành động của Liên hiệp quốc (LHQ) về An toàn nhà báo, từ việc xây dựng cơ chế và chính sách ở cấp quốc gia.

Hội nghị Báo chí với phát triển bền vững

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Vietnam Sustainability Forum (VSF 2018), 18-19 January 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam

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The Vietnam Sustainability Forum (VSF 2018) aims at providing an international exchange platform for various stakeholders including policymakers, academics, entrepreneurs, practitioners, and the NGOs to present, discuss and debate the worldwide visionary initiatives, practices, and trends for a harmonious society. Some sessions devote a particular focus on Vietnam with her uniqueness. Keynote speeches will be delivered during the plenary sessions by members of the Vietnamese Government to discuss on current Vietnam’s policies for a prosperous growth and internationally well-known economists to present a view on Sustainable Development. In addition, several workshops will be held on various topics. Dedicated time will be reserved for breaks and social events to facilitate discussions and networking between and among delegates.

The VSF 2018 is jointly organized by the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) and the  Academy of Policy and Development (APD) under the patronage of the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam.

20 Award tickets for Excellent Local Vietnamese Students and Young Academics.
Please send your CV & motivation letter to vsf@a-vse.org

More information at http://www.vsf.a-vse.org/about-us/

Universities and students are revolutionalizing Sustainability

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worldwatch_As leaders of knowledge and innovation, universities are places where sustainable futures are imagined. They are institutions where experts research emerging issues and generate new ideas. They contain multitudes of idealistic and adaptive young students who can be mobilized to protect their futures. It is only natural that some of the most progressive sustainability ideas are emerging from universities.

Universities around the world are striving to curb their wasteful tendencies as well as to foster an atmosphere that encourages environmental consciousness. Here are three areas of campus life that universities have sought to make greener:

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  1. Fostering sustainable lifestyles through transportation initiatives

One of the most pressing issues pertaining to environmental sustainability at universities is transportation. A 2011 study by Complete College America reports that 75 percent of all college students in the United States commute to campus, often traveling by car, bus, and other carbon-emitting vehicles. Overall, the transportation sector is one of the country’s highest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.
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