Keep on deploying priority groups to promote sustainable production and consumption.

To summarize activities in 2022, orient and promote activities from the National Action Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption in 2023 and the following years, on July 20, 2023, in Nha Trang City. The Ministry of Industry and Trade organized the "National Conference on Sustainable Production and Consumption in 2023".

Attending the conference were representatives of relevant ministries and branches, the Departments of Industry and Trade of the provinces and centrally-run cities, the Center for Industry Promotion, the Center for Energy Saving, and other relevant units, organizations, and individuals. focus on cleaner manufacturing, sustainable production, and consumption.

Mr. Trịnh Quốc Vuong - Deputy Minister of Energy Saving and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade, opened the conference.

Decision No. 889/QD-TTg dated June 24, 2020,  approving the National Action Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption in the 2021-2030 period, the goal was defined as “Promoting management and exploitation. and efficient and sustainable use of resources, fuels, and raw materials, encouraging the development of environmentally friendly, renewable, renewable resources, fuels, materials, and products Recycling; promotes sustainable production and consumption based on innovation, creativity, practice, and development of sustainable production and consumption models, promote sustainable domestic production and consumption, create stable jobs green jobs and decisions, promoting sustainable lifestyles and improving people's quality of life, towards the development of a circular economy in Vietnam".

Speaking at the opening of the Conference, Mr. Trinh Quoc Vu - Deputy Director of the Department of Energy Saving and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade emphasized: "Sustainable production and consumption play an important role in life, to ensure sustainable development in the world. effective economic development, environmental protection, poverty reduction, and economic restructuring. Promoting sustainable production and consumption also contributes to promoting the circular economy and sustainable development. Sustainable production and consumption activities need to be implemented synchronously, focusing on breakthrough actions, supplementing and integrating contents into existing related programs.”

In 2022, to effectively implement the National Action Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued the Program's Operation Regulations to unify from central to local levels in the implementation process. perform; Based on the 2022 task list, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has concentrated on implementing tasks and projects to achieve the set goals such as: Reviewing, supplementing, formulating, and perfecting policies on production and sustainable consumption. Which, focuses on building material consumption norms for the paper, plastic, and textile industries; Sustainable exploitation and use of natural resources, development of fuels, renewable and renewable materials; Promoting cleaner production, producing environmentally friendly products, and promoting the application of models and sustainable linkages along the product life cycle; Developing a distribution system, sustainable consumption, sustainable import and export; Deploying and applying the circular economy model in several processing and manufacturing fields; In particular, communication raises public awareness of sustainable production and consumption.

Conference scenery

To further promote the implementation of sustainable production and consumption activities, in 2023 the Ministry of Industry and Trade will continue to coordinate with ministries, agencies, and localities in implementing tasks related to priority task groups to promote sustainable production and consumption, change consumption habits of all classes of people, raise public consciousness and promote sustainable production and sustainable consumption towards circular economy in Vietnam. Particularly, groups of tasks will be prioritized for implementation in 2023: Preading communication to raise awareness of diaspora, businesses, industrial zones, clusters, and craft villages on sustainable production and consumption; survey and develop raw material consumption norms in industries, in which focus is on several key industries such as textile, steel, plastic, chemical, cement, alcohol, paper, water processing seafood and some other production industries; building, applying and disseminating waste recovery, reuse, and recycling models, integrated management models of exploitation, processing, and manufacturing, sustainable production and use of fuels, raw materials for industries.

At the conference, the delegates also listened to the sharing of the representative of the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade about the cognition of implementing sustainable production and consumption activities in Hanoi city. Accordingly, in 2022, the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade has promoted communication on sustainable production and consumption; building a grid of cooperation in sustainable production and consumption by sectors; as well as providing technical support to assess cleaner production for industrial, commercial and service establishments in the field of industry and commerce.

The conference also spent a lot of time for business representatives to exchange solutions to limit plastic waste, apply sustainable consumption in plastic waste management; share experiences in applying sustainable production and consumption in the textile and dyeing industry; as well as the technology of gasification of the circular economy from waste, to gradually complete the plan of the National Program on Sustainable Production and Consumption in 2023 and the following years.

Source: Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade