How Japan will support an on-going landmark project to turn Da Nang into environmentally friendly city over the 2021 - 2030 period were put into discussions at the Thursday webinar.

Yokohama experts guiding residents in the wards of Thuan Phuoc and Thach Thang on how to classify garbage at the source in appropriate manner

In attendance at the event were representatives from the Da Nang Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Japanese city of Yokohama and the Japan-based Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).

In his remarks at the event, Director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment To Van Hung hailed international and non-governmental organisations for their active support for the Da Nang project over the 2008- 2020 period.

Yokohama, a typical Japanese environmentally friendly city, has showed its high responsibility to help protect the global environment, priding itself on its clean air, water and green spaces, Yokohama is on its ambitious path to become the foremost green smart city in the world. Yokohama boasts highly practical experience and effective solutions to ensure a harmonious combination between economic development and ecological maintenance.

With the support of Yokohama over the past seven years, Da Nang has yielded many fruitful results from environmental protection efforts, hereby contributing to its overall development.

In the coming time, Japan will support the project to turn Da Nang into environmentally friendly city over the 2021 - 2030 period. Focus will be on giving consultancies on building a low-carbon city, implementing energy efficiency projects, using water quality monitoring data, synthesising the existing data and information on greenhouse gas emissions, reducing emissions at offices, and raising public awareness of environmental protection and climate change mitigation.

From 2021 - 2024, heed will be paid to implementing a solid waste management project.

It is known that Da Nang has set a target of collecting 95% of solid waste for treatment over the 2019 – 2025 period, with 12% and 15% to be recycled and reused in 2020 and 2025 respectively.

By 2025, Da Nang will have implemented the sorting of domestic solid waste at families, and 100% of industrial parks and production establishments, service providers, and government agencies and organisations will have classified waste at the source.

Da Nang expects to expand the waste classification at source by 2022. In the 2021-2022 period, solid waste in Da Nang will be classified into 4 categories: recyclable waste, such as paper, plastic and metal; toxic waste, such as batteries and light bulbs; construction waste; and other types of waste.

By HOANG HIEP, DIEM HANG- Translated by A.T