Vietnam has taken move to set up a green growth model to ensure the environmental-friendly development and cope with climate change, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Thai Lai said at a forum in Seoul on June 16. Addressing the 2nd East Asia Climate Forum, Lai emphasized Vietnam’s green growth model will include special priorities which are suitable with the country’s situation. Some Asian nations, including South Korea and Japan, are carrying out this model via cutting exhausted fumes and saving energy, the Vietnamese government said on its website late June 17. The Vietnamese government has approved a national target program to respond to climate change as it is listed among five hardest-hit countries by climate change, Lai added. At a meeting with the Vietnamese deputy minister on the sidelines of the forum, Chairman of the Global Green Grow Institute Han Seung-soo said South Korea wants to join hands with Vietnam in environment protection. The Vietnamese government is also mulling over a plan to establish a national forum on natural disaster mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
