A proposal and a verification report on the National Assembly’s draft resolution on some specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City were scrutinized during the ongoing fifth meeting of the 15th legislature on May 26 morning.

It is necessary to increase tree coverage to reduce the effect of heat-induced problems and increase the absorption of greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas in order to contribute to realizing the target of net-zero emissions by 2050, according to Nguyen Tuan Quang from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

The National Assembly Standing Committee wrapped up the 20th session on February 15.

Individuals and households would be permitted to build their own houses under urban development investment projects provided that they comply with the land and real estate business laws.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on December 2 chaired a Politburo meeting on a project to review the 10-year implementation of a resolution on the orientations and tasks for the development of Ho Chi Minh City until 2020 and 2030, with a vision to 2050.

Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi noted several causes of and solutions to some urban development issues while fielding questions from legislators at the National Assembly’s ongoing fourth session in Hanoi on November 3.

On June 16, 2022, the fifth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee adopted Resolution 18/NQ-TW on continuing to renew and improve institutions and policies to raise the effect and efficiency of land management and use, creating the motive force for our country to become a high-income developed country. Below are excerpts of the Resolution.

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in such spheres as energy, transportation, construction material production, agriculture and waste treatment is one of the main objectives of a scheme to realize the country’s commitments made at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 16 attended an investment promotion conference in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang.