Green Assembly Asia Environment:Climate Change

 

VIETNAM (Southeast Asia)
CO2 Emissions p.capita (tonnes) UN	World Ranking CO2 Emissions (p.capita) UN	EPI World Ranking  Climate Change	TI World Ranking Corruption	TI Asia Ranking Corruption	Ratified Kyoto Protocol (year)
1.18	74	66	121	16	2002

Compiled by Green Assembly. Data sourced from the UN,Transparency International,and EPI

VIETNAM, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east, says Wikipedia.

With a population of more than 86 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world. In surface area it is about the same size as Malaysia and nearly as big as Germany. Its capital is Hanoi in the northern part of the country.

Vietnam is a late developer and for the time being doesn’t have a particularly bad environmental record. But the country is playing catch-up and environmental degradation is spreading at an alarming speed and at an alarming cost to the global environment.

Officials are all-too-often prepared to turn a blind eye to illegal logging and deforestation, and there is next-to-no criticism by the media because of government controls over reporting. Vietnam comes 155 out of 167 on the Worldwide Press Freedom Index.

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