07 Principles for Environmental Protection from 2022

According to Article 4 of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (Effective on January 1, 2022), the principles of environmental protection are stipulated as follows:

- Environmental protection is the right, obligation, and responsibility of every agency, organization, residential community, household, and individual.

- Environmental protection is a condition, foundation, central, and pivotal factor for sustainable socio-economic development. Environmental protection activities must be linked with economic development, resource management, and considered and evaluated in the course of carrying out development activities.

- Environmental protection is harmoniously linked with social welfare, children's rights, gender equality, and ensuring everyone's right to live in a clean environment.

- Environmental protection activities must be conducted regularly, openly, and transparently; prioritize forecasting, preventing pollution, incidents, environmental degradation, managing environmental risks, minimizing waste generation, and enhancing waste reuse and recycling to exploit the resource value of waste.

- Environmental protection must be consistent with the laws, natural characteristics, culture, history, market mechanisms, and the level of socio-economic development; promote the development in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities and mountainous regions.

- Agencies, organizations, residential communities, households, and individuals benefiting from the environment have the obligation to contribute financially to environmental protection activities; those causing pollution, incidents, and environmental degradation must pay, compensate for damages, rectify, handle, and bear other responsibilities as stipulated by law.

- Environmental protection activities must ensure no harm to national sovereignty, security, and interests, and are linked with the protection of regional and global environments.

Above are the principles of environmental protection according to the latest regulations.

Respectfully!