On July 12, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued Directive No. 20/CT-TTg on a number of urgent tasks, resolutely preventing and combating environmental pollution.
In the directive, the Hanoi People's Committee focused on directing and immediately implementing a number of key solutions with a specific roadmap.
Regarding environmental protection in the field of urban transport, establish and announce a project on low-emission zones (in the third quarter of 2025) and organize propaganda to raise public awareness in implementing low-emission zones.
Balance, arrange local budgets, strongly mobilize social resources and have a specific roadmap from now until 2030 to focus on developing a multi-modal public transport network, covering all routes, connecting key areas, charging station systems, services for vehicles using clean energy, prioritizing the use of electric buses and electric trains.
Implement the overall investment project to build the capital's urban railway system in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 188/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly.
Issue mechanisms and policies to support businesses in manufacturing and assembling vehicles using clean energy, businesses developing infrastructure to serve vehicles using clean energy in implementing green transformation
There is a policy to encourage and support people to convert from fossil fuel vehicles to vehicles using clean energy or using public transport (issued before September 30, 2025).
Study the increase in registration fees, registration fees, license plate issuance of motor vehicles, specialized motorbikes, vehicle parking service prices in central areas for vehicles using fossil fuels (build a specific roadmap from the third quarter of 2025 and adjust annually).
Implement solutions and measures for organizations and individuals to change vehicles and routes by July 1, 2026, so that there will be no motorbikes or mopeds using fossil fuels circulating in Ring Road 1.
From January 1, 2028, there will be no motorbikes or mopeds, and private cars using fossil fuels will be restricted from circulating on Ring Road 1, Ring Road 2; from 2030, they will continue to be expanded in Ring Road 3.
Regarding environmental protection in the field of wastewater and solid waste treatment, developing and implementing environmental pollution treatment projects in river sections, canals and ditches in the inner city; project to collect and treat wastewater and household waste in the city, not taking pollution to other areas instead of treating pollution at source; emergency environmental response plan to overcome wastewater treatment plants (building a project in the third quarter of 2025) and resolutely implementing.
Develop, supplement mechanisms and policies and have a specific roadmap by 2028 to relocate polluting production facilities to concentrated production areas according to the plan to ensure waste treatment according to regulations.
Fully implement regulations on separating rainwater drainage systems from wastewater collection and drainage systems; strictly handle urban areas that have not yet built centralized wastewater treatment systems (implemented from the fourth quarter of 2025).
Piloting the non-use of disposable plastic items in restaurants, hotels, beverage stores, eateries... in Ring Road 1 (implemented from the fourth quarter of 2025 and expanded in the following years).
Forming recycling industrial areas and waste treatment plants in Hanoi to reduce the rate of landfill waste, prevent waste from remaining, causing environmental pollution and loss of urban beauty (implemented from the fourth quarter of 2025).
