ADVISORY: MOT Establishes Steering Committee to Implement Viet Nam's COP26 Commitments
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As part of the national efforts to implement the emission-reduction commitment made at COP26, the Ministry of Transport will establish a steering committee to guide transport decarbonization.
Immediately after COP26, Viet Nam seriously and quickly implemented its commitment, firstly by establishing the National Steering Committee to implement Viet Nam's commitment to the COP26 conference, chaired by the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. Viet Nam is completing the relevant legal framework in an urgent manner; study and develop specific plans, measures, and roadmaps; review and adjust relevant strategies and plans; mobilize investment resources ... to fulfill these commitments. The Prime Minister suggests 8 contents to focus on implementing, including the plan to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; reduce vehicles using fossil fuels and promote electric vehicles; promote communication to encourage all people and enterprises to actively participate.
According to this orientation, on February 14th, 2022, Minister Nguyen Van The of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) chaired the meeting with the relevant units on implementing Viet Nam's commitment to the COP26 conference. The Minister proposed that the Department of Environment (DOE) would act as the main advising department, consider proposing the establishment of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Transport to implement Viet Nam's commitment to the COP26 conference. Reporting on the Ministry of Transport’s implementation of Viet Nam's commitment at the COP26 conference, the Director of DOE, Mr Tran Anh Duong, stated that at the present, transport means and equipment in the road, railway, inland waterway, maritime and aviation sub-sectors mainly use fossil fuels (such as gasoline, oil, ...) emitting greenhouse gases. In order to reach the goal of achieving “net-zero” emissions by 2050, key measures that the transportation sector must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are to convert transport means and equipment which use fossil fuels to electrical energy, hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic gasoline, and other sustainable alternatives and to promote public transport development.
“The DOE has advised and submitted to Deputy Minister, Le Anh Tuan, to issue five documents to assign departments/units, base on their functions, tasks, and management scope, to review, propose adjustment to relevant strategies, planning and plans to align to the goal of “net-zero” emissions by 2050", Mr. Tran Anh Duong stressed. Along with that, the MOT will chair a research and development of the Action Program on green energy transformation, reducing carbon and methane emissions in the transport sector.
While Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is currently implementing the NDC-TIA’s Vietnam Component work by supporting the Ministry of Transport to implement Viet Nam’s NDCs, DOE is the project owner. The project is currently supporting the MOT in improving the policy framework for electric mobility—including the development of a national- and city-level e-mobility roadmap—and fuel economy; developing an MRV system to track GHG mitigation progress; and developing an ambitious transport contribution to Vietnam’s 2050 vision and the 2025 NDC, including a scenario to achieving “net-zero” emissions by 2050. One of the major activities that the project implements this year together with the MOT is to develop the Action Program on green energy transformation, reducing carbon and methane emissions in the transport sector. This program will provide essential information and lesson learn from other countries for Viet Nam to achieve its commitment in COP 26.
