The IFC-World Bank report, Market Study for Vietnam – Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers, finds only 33 percent of the total 3.9 million tons of the commonly used plastics disposed per year in Vietnam are recovered and recycled. The study estimates that 75 percent of the material value of the plastics-equivalent to $2.2 billion to $2.9 billion per year is lost to the economy.
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$149 million aquaculture expansion in Mekong Delta
The plan aims to grow the region’s aquaculture sector by over 4 per cent a year until 2030, and achieve annual exports of $9 billion.The plan also aims to step up environmental monitoring, food safety and biosecurity measures.
Droughts caused about $100 million in rice-production losses
Rainy season ice fields damaged by the drought over these five years had affected a total of 624,262 tonnes of rice production, valued at an estimated $100 million, read the report.
HCM City’s master plan to 2040 focuses on climate change adaptation
According to a Government decision on the master plan, the city is expected to have 13-14 million people by 2040 and 16 million by 2060. It plans to allocate 100,000-110,000ha of land for urbanisation by 2040.
Following coup, Myanmar’s Indigenous vow to protect forests ‘until the end of the world’
“Attacks by the military on Indigenous peoples and environmental defenders means that the forests are at risk – and for this reason we want to say to the world ‘this coup doesn’t just affect our country, but the future of the globe.’”
The challenge of water management in Thailand
The recent centralized water planning restructuring has not been desirable. It ignores core principles of integrated water resources management, which require local participatory planning and action based on local knowledges and understanding of water-related issues, the agency mostly just focuses on mega-projects.
Could China’s coal call clean Cambodia?
The Chinese announcement may impact coal projects that have not closed finance and started construction — this includes the 700MW coal project in Koh Kong province and the deal with Laos to import 2,400MW of coal power and the powerlines through Prey Veng province.
Vietnam bids to woo Cambodia, Laos from China
Vietnamese authorities are increasingly concerned about developments on China and Laos’ stretches of the shared Mekong River. But Vietnam and Thailand, another historic ally of Laos, have so far failed to persuade the Vientiane government to rethink its impact on the Mekong.
Military coup overshadows Sweden’s work in Myanmar
Today no form of aid goes to the state or any state institutions but instead exclusively to civil society organizations.
Gold mining venture in Cambodia starts seeing returns
Ministry of Mines and Energy director-general for Mineral Resources Ung Dipola described the progress at the Okvau mine as a “source of pride” for the government and all the stakeholders, and it showed the untapped potential in the mining sector in Cambodia, which he termed a “sovannaphum”, or golden land.