President of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front
(VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has lauded millions of people in
110,000 residential areas, religious and mass organisations for their
environment protection efforts over the past years. Speaking to a conference in
Ha Noi on December 26th reviewing the cooperation between the VFF and the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) in the field during
2012-2016, Nhan underscored the significance of people’s role in supervising
and uncovering environment violations. Though the legal framework on
environmental protection and a number of green life and production models have
been launched, it is still crucial to monitor waste-discharging businesses and
units and build community-based environmental management models, he said,
adding that campaign “All people stay united to build new rural areas and
civilised urban areas” is the optimal solution. He suggested assigning specific
supervision tasks to mass organisations, for example, the Viet Nam General
Confederation of Labour could monitor enterprises’ waste discharge, the Viet
Nam Farmers’ Association could watch the use of materials and chemicals in
agricultural production, and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union could be
tasked with overseeing household waste treatment. The VFF Central Committee can
take charge of supervising waste discharge in industrial parks and major construction
projects, he proposed. Nhan urged the MoNRE to fund the building of
self-managed environment protection models in residential areas. Under their
coordination programme for 2012-2016, the VFF and MoNRE have launched emulation
movements and campaigns to promote green growth and the proper use of natural
resources in tandem with climate change response. From 2013-2015, the VFF’s
standing board paid field trips to inspect illegal sand and pebble exploitation
that led to riverside landslides, pollution in craft villages, and mining
activities, among others. Most public petitions and complaints on pollution
recorded and transferred by VFF chapters have been addressed by relevant
agencies. At the event, the VFF and MoNRE signed a cooperation agreement for 2016-2020,
under which, they will work together to raise public awareness of laws and
policies on environment protection and climate change response, continue
spreading effective models in residential areas, oversee the implementation of
relevant policies and offer personnel training in the field.
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