Receiving Ambassador Shawn Perry Steil, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha wished Canada would continue to share lessons learned and support Vietnam in green and sustainable development and net zero implementation.
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| 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 the Comprehensive Partnership, Vietnam-Canada relations have been raised to a new height. Currently, bilateral trade turnover reaches 7 billion USD (by 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 deepening in the fields of environmental protection, education and training, science and technology, response to climate change...
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha shared about the successes of the Vietnam-Canada Environment Project (VCEP) implemented in the period 1995-2006, contributing to support Vietnam step by step in building an organizational structure, human resources, a system of legal documents, and technical regulations 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 without carbon pricing to form a global carbon trading market, it would be very difficult to generate financial resources to specific technological solutions to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha also highly appreciated Canada's positive actions within the framework of implementing the Fair Energy Transition Agreement (JETP) of the Group of 7 industrialized countries (G7) and international partners to which Vietnam also participates; said that the two countries need to promote a typical model of cooperation in implementing energy transition.
Wishing that Canada would continue to share lessons learned, support Vietnam in green and sustainable development, and implement net zero, the Deputy Prime Minister also believed that, through forums and multilateral cooperation mechanisms, the two countries would continue to expand bilateral cooperation in many fields.
Supporting Canada's global initiative in ocean plastic waste treatment, the Deputy Prime Minister said that Vietnam is actively exchanging 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 for waste treatment and control at source in parallel with pollution treatment at sea.
Ambassador Shawn Perry Steil said that the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Partnership is a time for the two countries to look back on the successes achieved and a foundation for the future.
Vietnam has made many commitments and initiatives and efforts to respond to climate change, and has achieved positive results. Therefore, Canada is ready to support Vietnam in engineering, technology, governance, and resource mobilization to realize the goals of climate change response, energy transition, net zero, and the formation of a carbon credit market.
At the same time, the Ambassador hoped that the two sides would continue to promote cooperation in areas where Canada has advantages such as clean technology, clean energy, energy production other than coal power, etc.
