Goal 4 sustainable development

As a leading food and beverage producer, URC’s operations are bound to be heavily reliant on materials and produce waste. What initiatives have you launched to tackle this? Putting sustainability at the core of our business, we are fully aware of our responsibility to care for the environment and society while growing our business. For several years now, we have been implementing initiatives to improve the efficiency of water, energy, and waste management. All URC factories have reverse osmosis systems and reuse the water cleaned by it, as well as utilise clean energy such as compressed natural gas and biomass energy to protect the environment. Besides that, industrial waste is treated by contractors for recycling and is used as raw materials to produce pavement bricks and fertiliser, among others. Our facilities are certified with ISO 14001:2015 – an industry-leading accreditation for environmental management systems. … [Read more...] about URC Vietnam accelerates green turn

SEA of Solutions is an annual event covering the debate on plastic pollution, convened by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia, through the SEA Circular project supported by the Swedish government. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused new and extraordinary challenges, threatening public health, the economy, and the environment. Efforts to preserve life and prevent contagion, such as wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing remain important measures. However, repercussions are all being felt in the increased use of hand sanitisers and protective equipment; a resurgence in the use of plastics including single-use bags; extensive use of food delivery services and e-commerce; and delays or reversals in plastic bag bans. … [Read more...] about Drastic measures urged to curb rise in plastic usage

At the meeting, the city leader expressed his pleasure at good friendly and cooperative relations between Vietnam and the Netherlands, especially since the establishment of the diplomatic ties in 1973 and strategic partnership relations in water management and climate change adaptation in 2010. The Netherlands is currently the major trading partner and the eighth largest foreign investor of Ho Chi Minh City with 153 projects having the total investment capital of nearly US$2 billion. On the base of the desire to strengthen the mutual cooperation in the fields of climate change adaptation and sustainable agricultural development, HCMC has made efforts to materialize the potential cooperation, notably the public-private partnerships (PPP) initiative for the Sustainable Greater Ho Chi Minh City Flood Protection Scheme. As for Mr. Elsbeth Akkerman, she highly appreciated achievements of Ho Chi Minh City in the fields of urban infrastructure and public transport development.  … [Read more...] about Netherlands ready to support HCMC in projects against flooding

In particular, the Prime Minister has agreed to incorporate the 3,200MW Bac Lieu LNG power plant costing US$4 million to the seventh national power plan. Its investor, Delta Offshore Energy Company, is now finishing the procedures so that it can start construction soon. The project’s first phase, which will generate 750MW, is scheduled for service in 2024. The whole project will be completed in 2027. … [Read more...] about Vietnam makes a big push into renewable energy

Particularly, the Government requires ministries and ministerial-level agencies to actively receive and handle proposals of localities under their assigned functions, tasks, and authority to promptly and drastically remove problems in production and business activities. In case that the proposals are beyond their powers, they must report to the Government and the Prime Minister for consideration and decision. Ministries, central agencies, and localities must focus on strictly implementing Directive No.48-CT/TW of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee on the celebration of the Lunar New Year, Directive No. 44/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister on strengthening measures to ensure a happy, healthy, safe, and thrifty Tet holidays, and the Telegram No.1711/CD-TTg on ensuring traffic safety along with the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic during Lunar New Year and spring festival in 2021. The Government emphasized that they must continue to focus on implementing the dual goals and … [Read more...] about Gov’t orders synchronous implementation of measures for 6.5-percent growth