Hope Canada continues to share lessons and support Vietnam in green development

Receiving Ambassador Shawn Perry Steil, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha hopes that Canada will continue to share lessons learned and support Vietnam in green and sustainable development and implementing net zero.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Shawn Steil and delegates. (Source: VNA)

On the afternoon of May 23, at the Government headquarters, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha received Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Shawn Perry Steil.

After 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations and 5 years of establishing a Comprehensive Partnership, Vietnam-Canada relations have been raised to a new level. Currently, bilateral trade turnover reaches 7 billion USD (2022).

Canada is Vietnam’s second largest trading partner in the Americas and Vietnam is Canada’s largest trading partner in Southeast Asia. Cooperation between the two countries is increasingly extensive in the fields of environmental protection, education and training, science and technology, climate change response, etc.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha shared about the successes of the Vietnam-Canada Environmental Project (VCEP) implemented in the period of 1995-2006, contributing to supporting Vietnam to gradually build its organizational apparatus, human resources, legal document system, and technical standards on environmental management to accompany the development of a green, circular, and sustainable economy.

Expressing his impression of the Canadian Prime Minister's initiative and determination in achieving the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40-50% by 2030, especially building a global carbon pricing mechanism... The Deputy Prime Minister said that if carbon cannot be priced to form a global carbon trading market, it will be very difficult to generate financial resources for specific technological solutions to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha also appreciated Canada's positive actions within the framework of implementing the Just Energy Transition Agreement (JETP) of the Group of Seven (G7) and international partners in which Vietnam also participates; said that the two countries need to promote exemplary cooperation models in implementing energy transition.

Hoping that Canada will continue to share lessons learned and support Vietnam in green and sustainable development and implementing net zero, the Deputy Prime Minister also believes that through multilateral forums and cooperation mechanisms, the two countries will continue to expand bilateral cooperation in many fields.

Supporting Canada's global initiative to deal with ocean plastic waste, the Deputy Prime Minister said that Vietnam is actively discussing and cooperating with the World Bank and Japan to promote the formation of a global legal agreement on ocean waste management, focusing on sharing skills and technologies to treat and control waste at source in parallel with handling pollution at sea.

Ambassador Shawn Perry Steil said that the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 5th anniversary of the Comprehensive Partnership is a time for the two countries to look back on the successes they have achieved and is a foundation for moving towards the future.

Vietnam has made many commitments, initiatives and efforts to respond to climate change, and achieved positive results. Therefore, Canada is ready to support Vietnam in terms of techniques, technology, governance, and resource mobilization to achieve goals in climate change response, energy transition, net zero, and the formation of a carbon credit market.

At the same time, the Ambassador hopes that the two sides will continue to promote cooperation in areas where Canada has advantages such as clean technology, clean energy, and non-coal energy production.

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