Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the 3rd Summit of the Asian Zero Emission Community

Photo caption — Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and heads of delegations from ASEAN countries attend the 3rd Asia Net Zero Emissions Leaders' Meeting. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

According to a special correspondent of the Vietnam News Agency, continuing the 47th ASEAN Summit and related Summits in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), on the afternoon of October 26, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the 3rd Summit of the Asian Zero Emission Community (AZEC).

The conference was attended by 11 member countries within the AZEC framework, including Australia, Japan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The AZEC initiative, which will be implemented from 2023, is a multilateral cooperation mechanism to support Asian countries in addressing three challenges, including ensuring economic growth; ensuring energy security and pursuing the process of decarbonizing the entire economic sector based on the perspective of "One goal, many paths".

In it, AZEC countries reaffirmed their commitment to offer diverse and practical pathways towards net zero emissions, taking into account each country's unique circumstances, existing targets or policies, and development challenges including geographic, economic, technological, institutional, social, and equity factors.

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim delivered speeches at the Opening Session. The heads of delegations acknowledged and welcomed the outcomes of the 3rd AZEC Ministerial Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on 17 October.

At the end of the meeting, the heads of delegations adopted the Joint Statement of the 3rd AZEC Summit, which welcomed the progress achieved since the 2nd AZEC Summit and stressed the need to accelerate actions in this important decade based on the “Action Plan for the Next Decade” adopted at the 2nd AZEC Summit as well as in line with the policies of the AZEC partner countries.