Pollution in vietnam

From 2019, the country’s fuel tax will rise to the highest level of VNĐ4,000 (US$17 cents) per litre for gasoline and VNĐ2,000 ($8.5 cent) per litre for diesel. The tax will bring VNĐ57.3 trillion ($2.4 billion) each year to the State budget but the money will not go directly to environment protection activities. … [Read more...] about Economic tools necessary to address air pollution: experts

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam suffers around 10.8 – 13.2 billion USD worth of economic losses associated with ambient air pollution each year, equivalent to 4.45 – 5.64 percent of the country’s GDP, heard a discussion in Hanoi on January 14. The figure is calculated by a research project of the National University of Economics (NEU), according to Associate Professor Dinh Duc Truong, Director of the NEU’s faculty of environment, climate change and urban development. He also cited another research project conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which claimed that some 71,000 deaths in Vietnam in 2018 were caused by environmental pollution, with around 50,000 deaths directed related to air pollution. President of the Vietnam Clean Air Network Hoang Duong Tung said that emissions from vehicles are a major source of air pollution in urban areas (60 percent), adding Vietnam is the world’s fourth largest motorcycle market with 46 million vehicles, … [Read more...] about Air pollution costs Vietnam at least 10.8 billion USD each year

Meanwhile, photochemical smog is a common phenomenon in traffic hot spots in Ho Chi Minh City where the level of air pollution exceeds the permissible limit, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s Centre for Environmental and Natural Resources Monitoring. … [Read more...] about Vietnam steps up measures to improve air quality

They also were completely ignorant of where it was in their surroundings, how the toxin enters the human body, what effects it would have on their health, or how to avoid its impacts. They only showed concern when they heard of someone having cancer, or a child with birth defects. I once visited a family with five of six children born deformed. … [Read more...] about Hanoi fire re-exposes major risk management shortcomings in Vietnam

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) has said its five members, namely Honda, Piaggio, Suzuki, SYM, and Yamaha, sold over 3.25 million motorbikes in 2019, a year-on-year decline of 3.87 percent. Honda is making up nearly 81 percent of the sector’s market share with the most diverse range of products. The five VAMM members are manufacturing and distributing nearly 100 models of motorcycles with prices ranging from tens of millions of VND to over one billion VND each. Other domestic brands present in Vietnam’s motorcycle market are VinFast and Pega, as well as foreign firms such as Kymco, Ducacti, Kawasaki, BMW, KTM, Benelli, Harley Davidson, Triumph, Royal Enfield, and Motorrad. According to insiders, as Vietnamese people’s incomes have increases, more customers have been switching to buying cars. Last year, 400,000 cars were sold at home, a record number over the past 20 years. Air pollution in big cities has also made a … [Read more...] about Motorbike sales in Vietnam shrink in 2019