On April 14, Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired the meeting with ministries and branches to give opinions on important contents in the draft decision of the Prime Minister on environmental criteria; Confirmation for projects granted green credit, issuing green bonds.
According to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, there are expected 45 types of investment projects in 7 areas confirmed to meet the environmental criteria for granting green credit, issuing green bonds:
Energy (10); Transport (3); Construction (2); Water resources (3); agriculture, forestry, fisheries and biodiversity conservation (12); processing and manufacturing industry (6); Environmental services (9).
Minister of Agriculture and Environment Do Duc Duy said that the final product of the decision is to promulgate the criteria to confirm a investment project as a green project; The process of evaluating, evaluating and granting green project certificates to be able to use to access green credit, green bond issuance.
In order to solve the biggest problem, it is the regulations on the organization to confirm the project to meet the environmental criteria, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment proposed, organizations that certify independent operations in the field of certification of appropriate and auditing to carry out the evaluation and issue a Green Project Certificate.
The certification is considered as a condition and basis for the owner of the investment project to use the State's preferential policies on green credit, green bonds (if any) or for credit institutions to consider granting green credit, guarantee of green bond issuance.
Concluding the work, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized the issuance of the decision not only to handle environmental pollution but also to convert green and convert to circulating economy in the country; increase the competitiveness and integration of Vietnamese goods in the international market; Contribute to preventing environmentally friendly projects.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that the scope of regulation and subjects applied in the decision need to be expanded and supplemented for the project that is operating and improving and converting to greener and cleaner technology.
State agencies and organizations appraise the environmental impact assessment report (EIA) may certify the project to meet the environmental criteria that are granted green credit, issuing green bonds if the investor has requirements with higher standards and technical standards than the current level.
The confirmation document can be considered as a condition, based on priority to attract investment.
The requirements and technical criteria need to refer to the standards and standards in large countries and export markets of Vietnamese goods or have a higher level of development.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment coordinates with the ministries and branches to review and select the fields and types of projects to avoid duplication, concretizing the subgroups and branches of the fields.
Clearly define the process and content of confirmation in order to clearly clearly confirm the responsibility of the agency to confirm independence; Building a database of green projects that are confirmed and publicly announced, updated, connected and connected.
