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Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the
United Nations (UN), presents Vietnam's policies to promote green
agriculture at the ECOSOC forum (Photo: VNA)
The event was co-organised by Thailand, Vietnam, Bhutan, the EU, UNEP and Switch
Asia.
Ambassador Quy highlighted Vietnam’s achievements in agriculture as well as
challenges that the country is facing to ensure sustainable development such as
low productivity and environmental impacts due to the use of chemical
fertilizers and pesticides.
The diplomat emphasised the importance of concrete initiatives to bring policies
into life, including the application of Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practice (VietGAP)
to help increase productivity, mitigate environmental impacts, and raise incomes
for farmers.
Participants shared their countries’ solutions to promoting a green economy and
sustainable production and consumption models that benefit people and minimise
environmental impacts.
A representative from Thailand underlined the role of building policy frameworks
to promote green economy and efforts to realize these policies, especially in
rural areas.
Meanwhile, a delegate from Bhutan shared the country’s “High Value, Low Impact”
tourism policy and its approach based on the Gross National Happiness (GNH)
index in building a prosperous country.
A representative from the EU referred to the Circular Economy that helps
minimise waste in production and consumption.
The UNEP underlined its cooperation efforts with the private sector to boost
plastic recycling solutions and gradually eliminate the use of plastic products.
Source: VNA
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