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Local authorities, experts and businesses saw the possibility of Greening the Hotel Sector in Hoi An City towards an eco-town development strategy

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unido_pr_300Hoi An City, 10th January 2012 – Nearly eighty delegates from government, local and international experts and leaders of local hotels/ resorts gathered in Hoi An city to explore ways to act environmentally and socially responsible in hotel sector. Cost savings, environmental management and other related topics were discussed during the workshop.

The workshop Greening the Hotel Sector: Acting Environmentally and Socially Responsible organized by Hoi An City People’s Committee (HPC) with technical assistance from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a part of Hoi An Eco-city Development Component within the framework of Policy advice on Environmental management: Green Industry Development Project (GI Project), an initiative to enable Vietnamese Government to adapt and adopt innovative GI-based policies and initiatives for sustainable industrial development in key sectors whilst reducing GHG and other emissions, reducing resource consumption and waste generation and reducing vulnerabilities to climate change.

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FAO-EU project to promote climate-smart farming Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia will benefit from collaborative effort

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16 January 2012, Rome - FAO and the European Commission announced today a new €5.3 million project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia transition to a “climate-smart” approach to agriculture.

Agriculture -- and the communities who depend on it for their livelihoods and food security -- are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. At the same time agriculture, as a significant producer of greenhouse gases, contributes to global warming.

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UNIDO helps develop Viet Nam’s export sector

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IMG_0473 Ha Noi, 20 December 2011 – A new information Centre will help Vietnamese enterprises exporting their products to the European market better understand EU regulations, including the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals as well as the restriction of hazardous substances.

The Centre was launched today as part of a joint project of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

The USD 3.5 million project is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and supported by the Ministries of Science and Technology, and Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Launch of Viet Nam’s multiple indicator cluster survey 2010-2011: disparities for children and women persist

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The Viet Nam’s multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) 2010-2011 report was launched today in Ha Noi

Ha Noi, 16 December 2011– Viet Nam’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2010-2011 report, launched today in Ha Noi, reveals persisting disparities in the lives and well-being of children and women in Viet Nam, across regions, by gender, area of residence, wealth, and ethnicity.

The survey was carried out between 2010 and 2011 by the General Statistics Office (GSO) in close collaboration with various line ministries and UN agencies UNICEF and UNFPA. It provides a comprehensive, updated picture of the situation of children and women in Viet Nam.

In the area of immunisation, the report shows that just two out of five children between 12 and 23 months are fully immunised in Viet Nam. There is also a considerable gap between rural and urban areas, with one in two urban children fully immunised, compared to only one in three in rural areas.

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