Vietnam Promoting Green Tech

Anyone wanna guess where these countries will get what they need that they don't start producing themselves, hint: not the U.S.of A..

Construction to promote green tech

Solar energy panels at the National Convention Centre. The nation plans to boost efforts on expanding green technology to help reduce carbon emissions. —VNA/VNS Photo Doan Tung

March, 24 2011 - The construction industry would be giving preferential treatment to investors in green technology, said Nguyen Tran Nam, deputy minister of construction.

Nam added that the ministry would create a legal framework to boost the development of green industries.

The Government wants the country to become an industrialised nation by 2020. In that time, it anticipates the population in major cities to rise by about 45 per cent from its current level.

The World Green Building Council said that buildings consume about 40 per cent of the world's energy and generate 30 per cent of global carbon emissions.

Green buildings, therefore, are crucial to reducing the country's carbon footprint, said Tran Huu Ha, head of the ministry's Science, Technology and Environment Department. {continued}