The Green City Action Plan (GCAP) is a comprehensive investment program over time, with short-, medium- and long-term investments linked to goals and actions to improve environmental quality and achieve competitive, sustainable growth.
GCAP provides national and local urban authorities with policy recommendations and technology options to design innovative investments with development partners to achieve the vision of a green city.
According to Associate Professor Dr. Doan Thu Nguyet, Expert of the Project “Integrating climate change resilience and environmental protection for green urban development” chaired by the Department of Environment (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), the Green City Approach (GCA) is a flexible and scalable initiative that proposes a paradigm shift in response to rapid urbanization by integrating urban development with environmental planning to enhance livability and resilience in cities. By “doing things differently”, GCA provides solutions to challenges related to environmental degradation, inefficient resource consumption, unbalanced growth and increased risks from climate change and natural disasters.
This approach has been implemented in many cities around the world, bringing positive results. Therefore, the Project "Integrating climate change resilience and environmental protection to develop green cities" in Vietnam has developed a Green City Action Plan in a number of cities in Vietnam such as Ha Tinh, Yen Bai (now Lao Cai province) and Ninh Binh.
Action compass for Vietnamese cities
In the urban area of Ha Tinh province, a typical coastal urban area in the Central region that is often exposed to severe natural disasters, experts from the Project "Integrating climate change resilience and environmental protection to develop green cities" in collaboration with local authorities have developed a GCAP for this area.
GCAP Ha Tinh proposed 4 groups of components including completing connecting infrastructure, environmental protection and climate change response infrastructure, marine ecological infrastructure, and finally technical support and capacity building. Some specific actions were proposed such as upgrading and expanding the road from Do Ha bridge to Van Tri tourist beach, building a clean water supply system for new communes, a wastewater treatment plant at Dap Bot lake or beautifying Thach Hai beach (cleaning, greening and building Thach Hai sea square), building climate change response projects for Bai Ngang communes and creating livelihoods for people in coastal sand areas in the direction of combating desertification.
In the urban area of Ninh Binh, which represents the urban area of the Red River Delta with the characteristics of a large population, strong development of traffic, construction and industrial production, and craft villages, the Project experts proposed a Green Urban Action Plan consisting of 3 components: completing connecting infrastructure, environmental protection infrastructure, climate change response, technical support and capacity building. Some specific actions such as building a wastewater treatment plant north of the old Hoa Lu city, drainage canal and Pham Hung road, building Van Hanh road, the eastern road adjacent to Phuc Son Industrial Park, completing the technical infrastructure system of Do Thien canal road.
In the urban area of Lao Cai province, a typical urban area in the northern mountainous region of our country, GCAP proposed 4 components, including specific tasks such as building a wastewater treatment station in the center of the old Yen Bai city, embanking Ngoi Yen stream, building Green - Happy urban infrastructure at Yen Ninh Primary School and Yen Ninh Secondary School, renovating Hoa Binh Lake and Yen Hoa Lake. In addition, strengthening training for city authorities and communities to respond to natural disasters, floods and operate and use new management systems.
Along with the development of specific action plans, the Project also proposes to develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating green and climate indicators based on the National Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation System issued by the Prime Minister. A number of indicators suitable to local characteristics are selected by the consulting team to measure and monitor policy commitments, results and project implementation processes, in order to meet the goals of green growth and climate change adaptation.
According to project experts, the development of GCAP Plans can be replicated in other urban areas across the country, becoming an important action-oriented tool, helping cities harmonize socio-economic development with environmental protection, adapt to climate change, and move towards sustainable development.
Source: https://baotintuc.vn/van-de-quan-tam/gcap-giai-phap-hien-thuc-hoa-tam-nhin-do-thi-xanh-tai-viet-nam-20251209163339805.htm
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