International solidarity, joining hands for the prosperity of humanity

On the afternoon of December 2 (local time), in Dubai (United Arab Emirates - UAE), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered an important speech at the World Climate Action Summit within the framework of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28).

At the conference, leaders of countries and international organizations highlighted the current situation, assessed the overall progress and actions achieved for the world climate; current challenges to the global climate; proposed solutions and commitments, stronger new actions in financial and technological contributions, and emission reduction towards realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed concern about the increasingly serious impacts of climate change, while the gap between climate commitments and actions is still large, and resources for climate change are dispersed due to competition, separation, war, and conflict.

From that, the Prime Minister believes that the motto "If you say you will do it, if you commit, you must fulfill it" is the key to strengthening trust between countries and breaking the deadlock in negotiations on climate change.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that climate change is an issue that has global impacts and influences and is a matter for all people.

To effectively respond to climate change, we need new, proactive, positive, practical, effective awareness, thinking, methodology, approaches and unified global action.

The Prime Minister suggested that each country must be responsible for effectively managing, implementing, and maximizing the nation's endogenous strength, combined with international solidarity and cooperation, in which internal strength is fundamental, strategic, long-term, and decisive; international cooperation and solidarity are important.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also promoted multilateralism, saying that it is necessary to take people and global common interests as the center and subject, not leaving any country or people behind.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh pointed out the need to diversify resource mobilization to respond to climate change, combining public and private, domestic and foreign, bilateral and multilateral, and other legal resources, especially private resources.

The Prime Minister called on developed countries to increase support for developing and underdeveloped countries, especially in terms of capital, technology, governance and institutions; conversely, developing and underdeveloped countries must make more efforts with the spirit that no one can do better for themselves than themselves.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also promoted fairness and climate justice and stressed the need to ensure national energy autonomy and security and ensure access to clean energy for all businesses and people.

The Prime Minister emphasized that since COP26, with responsibility towards the world and all people, Vietnam has comprehensively implemented a series of measures in three groups of solutions.

The first is about planning and organizing implementation such as issuing the Climate Change Response Strategy, Green Growth Strategy, Power Plan VIII, developing renewable energy industry, and building renewable energy ecosystem.

The second is to implement the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), establish the Secretariat and publish the Implementation Plan and Resource Mobilization Plan for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), and issue and implement the Plan for developing 1 million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice.

Third is about institutional building, such as building the Petroleum Law, perfecting the Land Law, the Electricity Law in the direction of supporting the development of renewable energy, as well as building and perfecting the Decree on direct electricity purchase and sale, handling renewable electricity projects and outstanding issues and obstacles for people and businesses in the energy transition process.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on the international community to strengthen solidarity, make efforts, take drastic and effective actions and make more efforts for the prosperous development of all mankind, the coolness of the Earth and the happiness and prosperity of all people in the world.

Senior leaders of many countries and international organizations highly appreciated the speech of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and affirmed their readiness to cooperate, support and accompany Vietnam in the process of implementing climate goals and sustainable socio-economic development.