Vietnam can be leader in transition to clean energy: US climate envoy

“Greenhouse gases kill 10 million people per year around the world and we should not be willing to accept that,” he told reporters in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday at the end of a four-day visit to Vietnam.”No one country can solve this problem by itself, we must have all countries come together. Vietnam can be one of the leaders that can set an example for how we make a transition to an energy base that does not burn coal.”At the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland last November Vietnam had promised to target net zero emissions by 2050.Net zero emissions mean the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere is the same as the amount emitted or more.Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had said Vietnam would actively develop sustainable energy and work toward reducing coal-fired power in a video message to the Russian Energy Week International Forum last…

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