On December 11, the Environment Protection Association in collaboration with the Department of Building and Vietnam Clean Energy Program (USAID) held a seminar "Green Building Development and Energy Efficiency"

According to the draft, those works registered for Award of Energy Savings and Environmentally friendly features must be the civil construction from grade III or higher, which are commissioned and completed and put into use as prescribed law within the last 3 years by the time of award registration; at the same time, there is no violation of the provisions of law on construction, land acquisition, bidding, work safety, environmental protection, fire control and other related provisions of laws.

Generating electricity from bagasse is a modern technology with efficiency, safety, and fossil energy savings.

Economical use of energy or green energy use will bring many benefits to the economy and the environment. This fact has been demonstrated evidently in many major cities around the world. Vietnam also has many solutions, specific support policies to realize the application of energy saving solutions and green energy use in production and daily life

In the past few years - ever since Tim Cook became CEO, really - Apple has been cleaning up its act on the environmental front.

Having been deployed since 2006, so far the energy-saving activities and Cleaner Production in Dong Thap province have made many important achievements to contribute to energy efficiency, and reduction of environment pollution.

Promotion of training and communication on economical and efficient use of energy in households is the city's great efforts during the recent years, to encourage people to use energy with conservation and efficiency in production and daily life, to save energy cost and reduce the impact of environmental pollution.

Taking the theme "Architecture, Building, Climate - Responsibility and Solutions", the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) International Union of Architects expects that the 2015 World Architecture Day (October 05) will raise awareness of World architects in the design of the environmentally friendly "green" house, thereby reducing greenhous

On September 19, 2015, the Campaign for Clean up the World with the theme “Take action for sustainable rural environment” was favorably responded and implemented by the People’s Committee of Nam Dinh Province to stimulate activities to raise community’s awareness of environmental protection in rural areas.

Prime Minister has approved the list of Project “Promotion of use and operation of energy-efficient industrial boilers in Vietnam”, granted an aid given gratis by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) from aid sources of Global Environment Facility (GEF).

New energy standards for home boilers entering into force this month are expected to take offline the equivalent of 47 Fukushima-type nuclear power stations in Europe by 2020, according to official EU data compiled by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

For the purpose of supporting agencies and organizations to access policies and technology solutions to economical and efficient use of energy, gaining economic and environmental benefits, Department of Science and Technology of Hai Phong held a seminar on “Energy-saving solutions for buildings”.

The coal mining units will be charged the highest environmental fee of up to VND14,000/ton, an increase of VND4,000 compared with the current rate. This is the draft decree for environmental protection charges for mineral extraction which has been released by Ministry of Finance for consultation on September 4th, 2015.

The resources of traditional energy in Hai Phong are depleted by fast economic development and high demand of energy. Therefore, not only the efficient and economical use of traditional energy but also the adaptation of renewable energy should be promoted for a sustainably economic development and environmental conservation.

The young people in HCMC having ideas and solutions on issues of environmental protection, energy saving, climate change can participate in the Contest on Youth Innovative Ideas 2015 organized by the Ho Chi Minh city Center for Youth Science & Technology Development.

Representatives from Ca Mau People’s Committee announced that “Clean Up the World 2015” with the slogan “Action for Sustainable Rural Environment” would be held from September 14 - 20, 2015. This campaign aims at raising the awareness of community about sustainably environmental conservation in the countryside.

Only in the field of energy, green materials can save about 14% of billed electricity used for lighting and air conditioning. In addition, the investment is not too high, with environmentally friendly features, meanwhile the payback period is relatively short .

Global confectionary giant Mars has released its 2014 sustainability report, highlighted by a 54% year-on-year increase in the amount of renewable energy used by the company.

The world's largest cable and telecoms company, Liberty Global, has announced savings of $325m in 2014 thanks to an ambitious environmental programme.

To encourage “Energy Conservation & Environment Protection” in the industrial sector PCRA has been continuously upgrading the energy conservation knowledge through energy audits and sharing the experience of energy efficiency improvement and achievement of industries.