Climate targets: Social development

• NDC content

  1 target

  • The average national poverty rate will be lowered 2%/year; in poor districts and communes it will be lowered by 4%/year until 2030
    Social development | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Vietnam's INDC

• National laws and policies

  2 targets

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    Key target until 2030: The Human Development Index exceeds 0.75; 100% of provinces and cities formulate and implement the Provincial-level Plan for the management of the air quality; the proportion of the population that uses sanitized and up to standards water (in compliance with the Ministry of Health’s regulations) reaches at least 70%. 
    
    
    
    Key target until 2050: The Human Development Index (HDI) exceeds 0.8. The proportion of the population that uses sanitized and up to standards water (in compliance with the Ministry of Health’s regulations) reaches at least 90%.
    
    
    Social development | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2021
    Source:

    Vietnam's Green Growth Strategy for 2021-2030, vision 2050 and related PM Decisions

    Executive | 2021

  • Over 10% of the population and over 65% of public employees and servants will understand about climate change and its impacts by 2010
    Social development | Fixed level target | Target year: 2015 | Base year: 2008
    Source:

    Decision No. 158/2008/QD-TTg on the Approval of the National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change

    Executive | 2008

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