IUCN and Hyundai Motor Company collaborate on mangrove restoration in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam HANOI, October 24, 2023 – IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, entered a three-year partnership with Hyundai Motor Company and Good Neighbors International (GNI) to restore mangroves in the Mekong Delta with a focus on privately owned shrimp farms. […]

IUCN-PAN-CP partnership on forest restoration: Piloting the possibility to enter tradable carbon credit market Lang Sen Wetland Nature Reserve in Tan Hung District, Long An Province was established in 2004. The nature reserve covers 1,971 hectares and includes some of the last natural wetlands in the Plain of Reeds with a mix of marshes, seasonally […]

In the upper Mekong Delta, the two natural flood plains are the Plain of Reeds (POR) to the east of the Tien branch, covering parts of Dong Thap, Long An, and Tien Giang Provinces, and the Long Xuyen Quadrangle (LXQ) to the west of the Hau Giang branch of the Mekong River, covering parts of An Giang and Kien Giang Provinces. Together, they cover about 1.3 million hectares.

IUCN and TCP Viet Nam collaborate on EPR to support the circular economy ... MONRE led the revision of Law on Environmental Protection (LEP), which was approved by the National Assembly in December 2020. The LEP’s Articles 54-55 provide the legal basis for Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR), initially for six sectors: packaging, electrical goods, tires, [...]

The “Female journalists with collective impact for reducing plastic pollution and plastic waste” project, which is initiated by For Vietnamese Stature Foundation (VSF), funded by the Earth Journalism Network (EJN), Tetra Pak Vietnam Joint Stock Company, and Vietnam Business for Environment (VB4E), would like to announce the call for proposals for “Financial & technical aid package” on the topic of plastic pollution and reducing plastic waste in Vietnam.

Bangkok, Thailand, 13 December 2021: Siam City Cement Group (SCCC Group) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) extended their partnership for another three years at a signing ceremony of their new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the implementation of the INSEE Sustainability Ambition 2030 targeting Net Positive Impact (NPI) on biodiversity at sites where SCCC Group operates. 

Mekong Delta is home to 50% of Viet Nam’s mangroves, however, sea level rise (SLR) is leading to a coastal squeeze, resulting in the loss of mangroves, fisheries habitat, and biodiversity. The project aims at increasing mangrove cover along 200 km of the lowest and most vulnerable coastlines of the delta.

VAN has recently developed Responsible Agriculture Programme to consider comprehensive solutions to handle issues and risks from climate change, transboundary pest immigration and environmental crisis from businesses and local communities. 

Based on these important values of  the coral reef ecosystem and given the serious degradation of coral reefs in Cat Ba, Cat Ba National Park has proposed to develop and implement the program “Coral reef monitoring to propose coral reef effective management and conservation measures in Cat Ba National Park”.

GreenViet and GSI through the EU-funded project “Establishing a funding foundation for biodiversity protection and environmental sustainability in Da Nang City, Vietnam” has partnered with VB4E to call for the application of small grants on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. VB4E will be the partner of the project to provide TA for application screening, M&E and promote business participation in this process.

In 2018, IUCN Asia Regional Office signed a 3-year-MOU with Siam City Cement Group – SCCC (headquarter of INSEE in Thailand) for the period of 2018 and 2020. The purpose aims to implement biodiversity conservation activities to protect high conservation value karst areas in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

The project aims to increase the voice and action of young people on environmental issues, and generate positive changes in governmental and business environmental policies for a more sustainable way of life.

The objective of this partnership is to implement robust sustainable development standards for INSEE’s Hon Chong quarry as well as to provide guidance to improve the cement sector’s environmental impact.

The project is aiming at training and assisting farmers in Dong Thap, Long An, and An Giang Provinces in the Mekong Delta to adopt financially attractive, low risk, flood-based livelihoods as alternatives to unsustainable triple rice cropping.