Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is reviewing and updating the country’s carbon emission target to better comply with the Paris agreement on climate change and prepare for the global assessment later this year. Deputy minister of environment and natural resources Võ Tuấn Nhân announced the review during a consultation workshop on Wednesday, where international partners such as UNDP and EU contributed ideas and technical expertise to help the country reduce its emissions. Deputy minister Nhân said that Việt Nam started its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) back in June last year and the report has been mostly completed. The greenhouse gas mitigation component focuses primarily on energy-related policies, industrial and agricultural production, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) and waste. Evaluation of data needed for calculating costs and the feasibility of greenhouse gas mitigation in various areas and … [Read more...] about Việt Nam is updating its emission target in Paris climate deal
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Vietnam reviews NDCs for Paris Agreement implementation
During workshop held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), experts from the World Bank, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, GIZ, UNDP and more gave feedback and recommendations for the review and update of Vietnam’s NDC. (Photo for illustration) The country set up a team for NDC review in November last year. The team, led by Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan, gathers a number of experts and scholars in climate change and governmental officials from ministries and state agencies. The review and update of the greenhouse gas mitigation component in Vietnam focuses on energy-related policies, industrial and agricultural production, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) and waste, reported Nguyen Khac Hieu, Deputy Director of the MoNRE’s Climate Change Department. Evaluation of data needed … [Read more...] about Vietnam reviews NDCs for Paris Agreement implementation
Paris Opera dancers complain of bullying and harassment
A survey of ballet dancers at the prestigious Paris Opera has revealed widespread complaints of bullying and sexual harassment, as well as separate management concerns over the leadership of dance director Aurelie Dupont. Director of Paris Opera and former star dancer Aurelie Dupont was backed by Paris Opera chief Stephane Lissner, who said she was "excellent". (Photo: AFP/Francois Guillot) In the anonymous survey seen by AFP, 90 per cent said they did not believe the company was being well managed and 77 per cent said they had suffered bullying or witnessed a colleague being bullied. Some 26 per cent of the 132 dancers questioned said they had been sexually harassed at work or witnessed a colleague suffering sexual harassment. Paris Opera chief Stephane Lissner expressed surprise that the unprecedented survey, carried out by an internal body that represents the dancers, had been leaked to the press. He said there was "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment and urged dancers … [Read more...] about Paris Opera dancers complain of bullying and harassment
Two dinosaurs fetch over 1.4 million euros each in Paris sale
The same unnamed foreign buyer snapped up the skeletons of two late Jurassic dinosaurs – a diplodocus (back) and an allosaurus (front) at the Drouot auction house in Paris. — AFP PhotoViet Nam News PARIS — Two dinosaur skeletons marketed as hip design objects – one of a diplodocus, the other of an allosaurus – sold for more than 1.4 million euros (US$1.7 million) apiece at auction in Paris on Wednesday. "The same foreign buyer acquired the two dinosaurs," the Drouot auction house said, hailing "exceptional" prices for dinosaurs, though neither was a record. The diplodocus – a herbivorous giant measuring 12 metres long from nose to tail – fetched 1.44 million euros, compared with 1.41 million for the carnivorous allosaurus, a minnow in dinosaur terms at just 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) long. The two dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago. Only about five dinosaur skeletons are put up for auction … [Read more...] about Two dinosaurs fetch over 1.4 million euros each in Paris sale
Anyone want to buy a dinosaur? Two on sale in Paris
The skeletons of an allosaurus and a diplodocus are up for auction in Paris this week, marketed as hip interior design objects - for those with big enough living rooms. "The fossil market is no longer just for scientists," said Iacopo Briano of Binoche et Giquello, the auction house that is putting the two dinosaurs under the hammer on Wednesday. "Dinosaurs have become cool, trendy - real objects of decoration, like paintings," the Italian expert told AFP, citing Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage as fans of such outsize prehistoric ornaments. Cage, however, did hand back the rare skull of a tyrannosaurus bataar, a close cousin of T. rex, that he bought in 2007 after it was found to have been stolen and illegally taken out of Mongolia. Dinosaur bones are increasingly gracing collectors' cabinets, with another huge skeleton, that of a theropod, expected to fetch up to 1.5 million euros ($1.84 million) when it goes up for auction in June. Chinese buyers "For the last two … [Read more...] about Anyone want to buy a dinosaur? Two on sale in Paris