Although the Vietnamese government is advocating the development of a low-carbon economy, many businesses are scratching their heads over applying proper solutions to make their performance more environmentally friendly.
Senin 10 May 2021 23:03 WIB Red: Satya Festyiani
Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (LHK) Siti Nurbaya bersama dengan Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan, Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, secara virtual Rabu (5/5), mengikuti diskusi yang dibalut dengan tema “Executive Brief: State of The Art Blue Carbon di Indonesia”. Foto: Kementerian LHK
Indonesia can keep up to 17 percent of Blue Carbon reserve in the world. REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA Blue Carbon Ecosystem that consists of coastal area such as mangrove, seagrass meadows, and brackish marsh is an absorbent. It can save a big amount of natural carbon for a long time. As the biggest archipelago in the world, Indonesia has 3.2 million ha mangroves and 3 million ha seagrass meadows. With such a large number, Indonesia can keep up to 17 percent of Blue Carbon reserve in the world. Therefore, Indonesia plays an important role in decreasing climate change.
Friday, November 13, 2020 17:23
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in coordination with the World Bank, held a Final Workshop for the “Vietnam Partnership for Market Readiness” project in Hanoi on December 29. After 5 years of implementation, up to now, the project has made basic preparations, paving the way for the formulation of carbon market policies.
Chairs of the workshop
The project “
Vietnam Partnership for Market Readiness” (referred to as VN-PMR Project) was started in 2015, funded by the World Bank with the participation of Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Construction. Within the framework of VN-PMR project, there have been many in-depth studies to propose carbon market policies and tools, including crediting mechanism, emission trading scheme (ETS), carbon tax/fee and green certificate. These are carbon pricing instruments that are market-based and follow the �
greenhouse gas emission reduction because of his embracing of innovations in the energy industry, not going along this approach of regulating for the sake of regulating. sandra: we heard the president at the g7, he wants clean water, the cleanest water and the cleanest air someone you see that the rollback of these methane roles that would allow them to no longer would require them to no longer fix and detect methane leaks, how to that potentially work against the administration s message here? it s important to understand that there s other regulatory requirements that are in place. this is it done in a vacuum and the whole point is that these other regulatory mechanisms effectively capture and control methane. point number two is that methane itself is a commodity. there is more than a business incentive for natural gas extractors, transmitters and
being set by science and it s going to hit those deadlines and they re going to hit in our climate with or without us so we have to act. sandra: there s already a very passionate community of interest on the subject if he makes his run for the presidency but he thinks it s important to broaden the conversation beyond environmentalist. what you think of what he said over the weekend? i think he has a valid point, the point is that we have already made significant environmental gains in this country before talking about what we should do next, people need to be honest about where we are. we leave the world and greenhouse gas emission reduction, lead the world in terms of having the cleanest air on record and investing billions of dollars in clean water infrastructure. president trump is a man about action, not about making promises that sound good but don t actually produce results. so broadening the conversation is a valid point, but we need to be realistic and appreciative of where