– As an active and responsible member of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia ( PEMSEA ), at the regional level, Vietnam strongly supports the negotiations on a global treaty on plastic pollution, an official said on July 26.Addressing a Hanoi workshop to look into regional cooperation towards a global treaty on plastic pollution, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Agency of Seas and Islands (VASI) Truong Tri Duc also said the Vietnamese Government always attaches importance to the protection of maritime and insular environment, especially the issues related to marine biodiversity conservation, maritime and coastal environment, plastic waste, and marine plastic pollution. The workshop is held by the Vietnam Agency of Seas and Islands and the UNDP on July 26. Another is that the treaty must include legally binding obligations to help effectively minimise plastic pollution.The EPPIC, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, has invited innovators from across ASEAN to share their breakthrough ideas to deal with plastic pollution. It was launched in Vietnam and Thailand in 2021 and then expanded to Indonesia and the Philippines in 2022, and Laos and Cambodia this year.At the workshop, participants agreed on the importance of joint efforts to combat plastic pollution . A common document was also devised to draft a cooperation strategy for handling this problems, helping with the building of a global treaty on plastic pollution./.

Source: Viet Nam News July 26, 2023 14:53 UTC