reporter
Koji Fukuda
JICA
Long-term expert (Chief Advisor)
summary
Date: December 5, 2023
Sponsors: JICA, Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)
Location(Pavilion Name)：Vietnam Pavilion
speaker
Nguyen Tuan Quang
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam
Deputy Director, Department of Climate Change
Luong Anh Huy
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam
Director, Mitigation Division, Department of Climate Change
Koji Mitomori
JICA
Deputy General Manager, Sustainability Management Office, Planning Dept.
Koji Fukuda
JICA
Long-term expert (Chief Advisor)
Makoto Kato
JICA
short-term specialist
Wan Lek Kong
National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore
Principal Engineer
the nobility
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Assistant Director, Office of Decarbonized Business, Global Environment Bureau
Bernard B. Neidman
Danish Energy Agency
Special Advisor, Center for International Cooperation
*Boon Rod Yaowapruek
Creagy, Thailand
managing director
Online Speakers
Background and Objectives
As Vietnam is in the process of designing a GHG accounting and reporting system for the private sector to encourage private sector GHG emissions management and reduction, this side event invited neighboring countries in Southeast Asia and developed countries that are leading in similar systems and private sector GHG emissions management to share their experiences in operating such systems in a regional dialogue format, with the aim of identifying commonalities to make the systems work and contributing to mutual learning and strengthening the design of Vietnam’s domestic systems. The purpose of this side event was to extract commonalities for the functioning of the system and to contribute to mutual learning and to strengthen the design of the domestic system in Vietnam.
Contents
The following key points were extracted from the dialogue, which was moderated by JICA’s NDC Implementation Support (SPI-NDC).
Based on the operational experience of the countries that participated in the panel (Singapore, Japan, Denmark, and Thailand), it is clear that the accounting and reporting systems in each of the countries are not in a state of perfection from the beginning, but are undergoing gradual development (learning by doing) and improvement through the repetition of reporting cycles. The shortcut to success is to leave room for flexibility in the system to enable this gradual development.
Since private establishments are cross-sectoral, cooperation and consensus building with the competent authorities and local governments is a prerequisite for the operation of unified calculation and reporting. In addition, it is also important for the government side to encourage and explain to the business establishments to be covered.
The online reporting system will contribute to lower administrative costs, but it cannot be said that the online system itself will guarantee the operation of the system. (3) promotion of GHG reductions through external disclosure of reported data.
Panel Discussion
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