Scaling up Implementation of Vietnam’s Green Growth Priorities

Project Summary:

The program aimed to streamline Vietnam’s efforts to promote green growth and respond to climate change. Because of rapid population and production increases, Vietnam is now locked into coal-powered, energy-intensive economic growth. The associated environmental damage threatens long-term productivity and resilience and limits the country’s growth potential. The Vietnamese government is pursuing a policy agenda that aims to promote a low-carbon, green growth development path while also addressing increasing climate vulnerability. Building on recently proposed climate change and green growth strategies, this World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program would support analysis, technical expertise, and consensus building around multi-sector greenhouse gas emissions reductions, energy efficiency, energy subsidy reform, green growth, and climate change financing, as well as solid waste, water resource, and air quality management. An annual report would chart recommendations for improvements in the development and execution of policy actions, climate change and green growth expenditures, and a summary of capacity and knowledge generated. Once implemented, these green growth strategies will help reconcile and dovetail policy goals related to poverty reduction, environmental protection, and economic growth.

List of Activities:

• Provision of CC-GG technical knowledge and expertise for policy development investment planning and implementation readiness
• Stocktaking, review, assessment, and technical inputs into the development and recommendations for CC-GG policy reforms of the Post-2015 CC-GG Response Support Program and investment needs to implement policies
• Consultations on selected reforms across key stakeholders to deepen GoV reform agenda on CC-GG
• Monitoring, reporting, and knowledge generation for CC-GG action
• Monitoring and Reporting of Progress made by Post-2015 Program on policies, investments, and capacity/knowledge (and contributions to implementation of GGAP)
• CC-GG Knowledge Stocktaking activities on progress of GoV Post-2015 CC-GG Program
• Identifying Investment Opportunities in Green Growth
• Promoting Integrated Air Quality Management (Greening Cities)
• Identifying Waste Management and Recycling Opportunities (Greening Consumption)
• Supporting Eco-efficient industries (Greening Production)

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• 1.1. Technical notes developed for selected policy actions to guide consultations and to provide specific inputs into the formulation and implementation of policy reforms
• 1.2. Consultation meetings held with external experts sharing international best practices on selected CC-GG policy areas

Output 2: 

• 2.1. Annual Reports, Protocol for Reporting developed
• 2.2 Event held 

Output 3:

• 3.1. Technical note/ study developed identifying key investments for improved air quality management
• 3.2. Study identifying key investments for waste mgmt. and recycling (Waste Diversion)
• 3.3. Technical note/guidelines developed for greenfield and brownfield industrial zones

Outcomes:

The outcomes of this work were equipping the Government with good practice, knowledge and capacity to deepen the impact of climate change and green growth relevant policies under the Post-2015 Climate Change and Green Growth Response Support Program; A cross sector platform Climate Change and Green Growth that implements the CC-GG convergence agenda (currently being promoted under the preparation of the Post-2015 program) in line with the country’s climate change and green growth priorities. Stakeholders informed and contributing on the progress made in the development of CC-GG relevant policies. A transparent reporting system developed for the Post-2015 CC-GG Response Support Program to systematically provided bases for future discussions on the implementation of the CC and GG action plans.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• WBG internal partners:  This project will leverage expertise from the Climate Change CCSA, GEEDR, GFADR, GWADR, GSURR, GPVDR, IFC, and others to support the development and implementation of climate change and green growth policies.
• K-Partners:
  Korea Ex-Im Bank to support the Government’s SP-RCC (which is supported by the current climate change DPO series
  KOICA at the local level on adaptation planning
  KICOX on EIP development in Vietnam.
• Other external partners: The preparation of the Post-2015 program supported by JICA, AfD and UNDP. In addition, the work under the Support to CC/GG Resource Mobilization TA is financially supported through a DFAT Trust Fund. This work would also leverage the green investment guidelines being developed by MPI and supported by the GGGI.