The online newspaper “Môi trường & Cuộc sống” (Environment & Life) has selected the top 10 environment events in Vietnam for 2020 including:
- Approval of the revised Environmental Protection Law
- COVID-19 pandemic and related waste issues
- Historic heatwave and extreme weather
- Violent drought and salt intrusion in Mekong Delta
- Historic rain and storm in the Central
- Achieved goal of growing one million plants
- Increase penalties for administrative violations against regulations on water resources and minerals
- Inundation in the South and HCM City is still critical
- Environmental hazard from small and medium hydro-power plants
- Bitexco group suffered an administrative fine of 350 million VND for constructing villas without the license of environmental impact assessment
Source & further information: “10 sự kiện môi trường nổi bật năm 2020” at https://moitruong.net.vn/10-su-kien-moi-truong-noi-bat-nam-2020/, accessed on 5 Jan 2021.