The National Action Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption up to 2020, with a vision to 2030
On January 11, 2016, the Prime Minister issued the Decision No. 76/QĐ-TTg approving the National Action Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption up to 2020, with a vision to 2030.
General objectives of the Program are to gradually change the production and consumption model towards enhancing efficiency of natural resources and energy; to increase the use of environmentally-friendly raw materials, renewable energy and products; to reduce, reuse and recycle waste; to maintain the sustainability of the ecosystem at all stages in the product life cycle from exploitation, supply of raw materials to production, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal of products.
17 sustainable development objectives
Particular objectives of the Program in the period of 2016 - 2020 are:
- The total number of businesses in the energy-intensive industries, at high risk of environmental pollution, constructing and implementing the roadmap aiming at technological innovation towards cleaner technologies shall reach 60% to 70%;
- The share of industrial production facilities applying solutions towards cleaner production and energy saving shall be 50%;
- Eco-innovation activities shall be successfully piloted in businesses, industrial parks, industrial clusters, and gradually expanding the scale and scope of application; the share of green industry, environmental industry, waste recycling in GDP shall be 42% to 45%;
- About 50% of businesses in the distribution sector should have awareness, be guided for the implementation and application of solutions for cleaner production, energy saving;
- The rate of non-degradable packaging in supermarkets, commercial centers and in the public markets shall respectively decrease to about 65% and 50%;
- About 90% domestic scrap plastic, paper, waste oils and steel shall be recycled; 85% of urban living solid waste shall be recycled, reused, recovered for energy or producing organic fertilizers; 75% of industrial non-hazardous solid wastes shall be recovered for re-use and recycling and 50% of constructing solid waste generated in urban areas shall be recovered for reuse or recycling.
Particular objectives of the Program in the period of 2021 - 2030 are to implement activities to promote sustainable production and consumption comprehensively; to help models and practices in sustainable production and consumption to be more popular and widely used in the community and businesses; to basically change current production and consumption model to a more sustainable way.
Some main tasks of the Program are to:
- Construct and improve policies to encourage investment in the development of production, sales and distribution of environmentally-friendly products and services; construct incentive, preferential mechanism towards consumption of environmentally-friendly products; construct and improve mechanisms coordinating and promoting public-private partnership for sustainable production and consumption; construct national indicator system to monitor and evaluate the implementation of sustainable production and consumption;
- Develop international trade policy, export tax, import tariff policies for environmentally-friendly products and services in accordance with the international integration roadmap, the bilateral and multilateral trade agreements;
- Apply the product lifecycle approach by implementing eco-innovation activities in the business and industrial parks, industrial clusters in order to improve the efficiency of resource usage, waste prevention and minimization;
- Develop the production of environmentally-friendly products, services; continue to promote the development of environmental industries;
- Provide support for trade promotion, market access for products labeled Vietnam green, energy-saving label and other eco-labels;
- Guide, provide technical support for businesses in applying and certifying international standard system and standards of the importer on environment and sustainable development; construct sustainable export business model;
- Enhance the competitiveness of key export products; improve market access and the ability to meet the provisions on the environment, sustainable development of key export products of Vietnam;
- Continue to implement labeling “Vietnam green”, energy-saving and other eco-labels; promoting evaluation activities, product certification, environmentally-friendly services;
- Guide, provide technical support to implement activities of minimizing, recycling and reusing of solid waste from daily life, production and trade and services; enhance control the import of scrap.
The Program shall be financed through the following sources: the state budget, aid, grants, investment capital from domestic and international organizations and individuals and other eligible funds.
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