The outstanding event in response to the Earth Hour Campaign for many years is " turn off the lights for an hour" with the "60+" symbol. From 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on March 22, the Hoan Kiem Lake Area walking street - Hanoi will host the Earth Hour 2025 response launching ceremony with many interesting community interaction activities on the environment, climate, and energy saving.
Responding to the Earth Hour event is also a way to commit to implementing efficient use, saving energy, attaching importance to developing and promoting clean energy in Vietnam of businesses and organizations operating in the field of energy and environment.
Mr. Tran Viet Nguyen - Deputy Head of Business Department, Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) - affirmed: "The Group always takes March every year to respond to Earth Hour events, organizes propaganda activities on energy saving activities, and advises customers on energy saving solutions, and we also hope that these programs will be throughout not only in March or April of May but also every other day of the year we will implement these contents; especially in communication work to customers to raise awareness, raise understanding why we must use electricity economically and effectively to protect the environment".
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hoang Long emphasized the importance of the "green transition" for the "green future" and the task of the Industry and Trade sector, in which, energy transition on both the supply side (such as strong development of non-fessional energy sources) and the demand side (such as the use of energy economically and efficiently) are the top solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the fastest implementation of the goal of carbon neutrality as committed by the Vietnamese Government at COP 26.
Regarding the economical and efficient use, on March 19, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a thematic Government meeting on law-making in March 2025 to discuss and give opinions on a number of draft laws, proposing to develop laws, including the draft Law on Energy-saving and Efficient Use draft draft drafted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Report of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Law on Energy Efficiency and Savings Use No. 50/2010/QH12 takes effect from January 1, 2010. After 15 years of implementation, some shortcomings that need to be reviewed for amendment and supplementation have been revealed. There is a reason why Vietnam has committed to reducing net emissions to 0 by 2050. Currently, Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises are lacking financial mechanisms to support enterprises in complying with green regulations.
According to the agency drafting the Law on Energy Efficiency and Savings, the amendment and supplementation of the law aims to fully and effectively institutionalize the viewpoints and guidelines of the Party and State. At the same time, to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese enterprises in the face of challenges from European green regulations such as carbon Emission Tax, mechanisms to adjust carbon boundaries for goods and services exported to demanding markets such as Europe, the US, and Japan.
