During the launching ceremony, Permanent Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Duong Tan Hien urged Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front committees at all levels, mass organizations, international organizations, press agencies, businesses, youth union members, and city residents to actively participate and pay attention to taking practical actions to protect the environment. In particular, the focus should be on implementing groups of tasks and solutions such as:
- Launching community campaigns to clean up the environment
- Paying attention to solving local environmental problems such as collecting, classifying, transporting, and treating waste by regulations and addressing ecological pollution issues that directly affect people's lives and livelihoods
- Continuing to strictly control waste sources, ensuring that waste must be treated following environmental protection regulations
- Promoting the application of advanced, environmentally friendly technologies and circular economic models towards green economic development and sustainable development
- Integrating the content of circular economy, green economy, and sustainable development in constructing and implementing tasks, goals, and socio-economic development plans of agencies, units, and localities.
Mr. Duong Tan Hien, Permanent Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee, delivered a speech at the launching ceremony.
The official also urged Can Tho Youth Union and city residents to work together and actively participate in projects and tasks to ensure they are both scientific and practical. The environmental sanitation campaign should make a significant impact in terms of both quantity and quality by promoting the spirit of volunteerism and creativity among young people. Additionally, they should focus on replicating successful examples, models, initiatives, and good practices in environmental protection.
Right after the launching ceremony, delegates, and local youngsters collected waste on the Can Tho River and visited the Interceptor 003 system, an automatic waste collection vessel operated by the Ocean Cleanup (TOC) organization on the river.
Delegates and local youngsters are collecting waste on the Can Tho River
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The Clean Up the World campaign was initiated globally by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1993. It is held annually in the third week of September and has evolved into a significant international event, drawing the participation of hundreds of countries and millions of people worldwide. The campaign focuses on activities promoting environmental protection and sustainable development. Vietnam, in particular, has been actively involved in the campaign since 1994. In Can Tho City, many activities are organized annually as part of the Clean Up the World campaign to create a significant and widespread impact on the community's environmental protection efforts. These activities include ecological sanitation movements, waste collection from rivers and canals, tree planting, implementing models for collecting, sorting, and treating household and plastic waste at the source, and promoting compliance with legal regulations on environmental protection. |
Thanh Xuan - Translated by Hoang Dat
