Climate targets: Water

• NDC content

  1 target

  • At least 90% of city-dwellers and 80% of rural inhabitants wil have access to clean water by 2030
    Water | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Vietnam's INDC

• National laws and policies

  3 targets

  • 2030: the rate of municipal wastewater collected and treated in compliance with the regulated standards reaches more than 50% for class II or higher urban areas, and 20% for other types of urban areas; 
    2050: 100% of the treated wastewater must comply with regulated technical standards before being discharged into the receiving bodies
    Water | Intensity target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2022
    Source:

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

    Executive | 2021

  • At least 95% of the population is provided with clean, sanitized water; at least 80% of the population has access to standard clean water; meet disease and epidemic prevention requirements.
    Water | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Decision No. 896/QD-TTg on approving the National Strategy for Climate Change until 2050

    Executive | 2022

  • 100% of the population is provided with clean, sanitized water; at least 90% of the population has access to standard clean water
    Water | Fixed level target | Target year: 2050
    Source:

    Decision No. 896/QD-TTg on approving the National Strategy for Climate Change until 2050

    Executive | 2022

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