Regulations on environmental protection are scattered in many laws; many ministries are responsible for management, wastewater treatment leads to overlaps and lack of coordination in implementing the tasks of environmental protection; thus, the water environment pollution is still serious. This is confirmed by experts at the seminar “Clean water and sustainable development: the policy problem”. […]
Current situation poses on the need to have proper perspective about the issue of water pollution as a threat capable of causing a tremendous impact on the whole society to a large extent both in space and time as well as review of relevant policies which heavily oriented and lack of specific guidance. In the […]
Morning of 06.10.2016, Center for Environmental Research and Community organized the seminar “The law enforcement of environmental protection: American Experience”. This seminar has the participation of Dr. Avi Garbow – chief adviser of the U.S. Ministry of Environment and other american legal experts, environmentalists, NGOs in Vietnam.
Since 1993, the Government of Vietnam has required environmental impact assessments (EIAs) of development projects and large-scale infrastruc- ture after the National Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) was enacted. LEP’s decrees and circulars mandate public consultations in the EIA process. In the 2014 amendment of LEP, the government required public consultations during the preparation of […]
“Responding Earth Day” program was conducted in the morning of 23.04.2016 at Hanoi’s Botanical Gardens. The program was organized by the VEA, Research Center for Environment and Community (CECR), Coalition for Clean Water, Hanoi’s Lake Club with the message “Clean water, strong economy”. Co-organizers of this event also include businesses: Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam, Lock […]
INVITATION JOIN EARTH DAY EVENT 04/23/2016 BOTANIC GARDEN (CONG VIEN BACH THAO) – HANOI “CLEAN WATER, STRONG ECONOMY” Hanoi, April 20, 2016 Dear participants, Earth Day (22/4) for the first time were proposed in the United States in 1970 and 2009 by the United Nations and recognized, launched globally, attracted hundreds of million people in […]
This morning, 20/3/2016, in Hanoi, Center for Environment and Community Research in collaboration with the Women Union of Ngoc Khanh Ward have co-hosted an event with the media message “A clean water source – a strong economy”, in order to raise awareness and change the behavior of environmental protection in general and protection of water […]
This morning, October 30th, 2015 in Hanoi, the Center for Environment and Community Research has published the book “Hanoi Lakes Report 2015”. The book aims to provide the latest information on changes of Hanoi lakes after 5 years (from the Report on background information on Hanoi’s lakes was first published in 2010 to present), the […]
In the two days of 10-11/7/2015 in Ninh Binh, the Coalition for Clean Water and Center for Environment and Community Research has held the training program “Water pollution monitoring skills for the community” for the core community groups in 5 provinces (Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Son La, Binh Duong and Da Nang). The objective of the […]
On the morning of June 5th, in Hanoi, the Center for Environment and Community Research has held the workshop on “Women and environmental impact assessment”. The workshop aims to present the research “The participation of women in environmental impact assessment of infrastructure projects” sponsored by PACT/MPE, with the Center for Environment and Community Research as […]