Launching a series of national consultations in Vietnam - towards stockholm+50

DNHN - On April 13, 2022, the Embassy of Sweden in Vietnam, the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment, and the UNDP in Vietnam co-hosted the International Consultation Series in Vietnam-Towards Stockholm+50. The festival will be a sequence of events till June 2022.

The event will involve a series of events around the country until June 2022 to convey the Vietnamese people's perspectives to a worldwide summit on the difficulties that people and the planet face.

They aim to represent Vietnamese ideas at a worldwide meeting on environmental issues. When 113 countries gathered in Stockholm for the first UN Conference on the Environment and People in 1972, they agreed that human activities were the root cause.

Our future is determined by them.50 years after the first Stockholm Conference, the world is confronted with three major crises: climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, among other difficult concerns like the COVID-19 epidemic.

The United Nations General Assembly voted to conduct a high-level summit titled "Stockholm+50: A healthy planet for everyone – our duties, our chances."

to identify urgent and concrete steps that people must take to safeguard the world and provide the groundwork for a green and inclusive future.

The meeting, as planned, will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 2 and 3, 2022, with the cooperation of the Kenyan government. A variety of events were carried out throughout the globe in the run-up to the conference to gather people's feedback.

Vietnam is one of 58 nations doing national consultations with stakeholders to feed into the global summit talks. UNDP and its partners will hold a series of face-to-face national dialogues in Vietnam.

"The national debates will highlight critical areas for equitable climate change in Vietnam," stated Ms Caitlin Wiesen, UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam. The Prime Minister wants to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Ba Dung