Situation on GHG

emission reduction
in Vietnam
Tran Thi Thu Hien, 10/2023
Carbon credit and other issues of GHG
emission reduction
I. Government Policies for C-credit: 3 notable documents
1.1. Decission No. 130/2007/QĐ-TTg: Financial policies for clean projects
(CDM) issued by the Prime Minister
Project fields:
a) Energy use, conservation and saving;
b) Renewable energy sources;
c) Converting the use of fossil fuels to reduce GHG;
d) Recovery and use of associated gas from oil fields;
f) Recover methane (CH4) from waste landfills and coal;
e) Afforestation or reforestation;
f) Reduce methane (CH4) emissions from crop and livestock activities;
g) Other reducing greenhouse gas emissions activities.
Proposal and implementation of CDM projects
(Decission No. 130/2007/QĐ-TTg)

1. Domestic investors build CDM projects; Invest capital in money and

other legal assets to implement CDM projects in Vietnam.

2. Foreign investors build CDM projects; bring capital or technology into

Vietnam to implement CDM projects.

3. Domestic investors and foreign investors use consultants to build

CDM projects and implement or enter into joint ventures to implement
CDM projects in Vietnam.
Right and Responsibility of investors
(Decission No. 130/2007/QĐ-TTg)
• Right on tax priority (land use, cash, …)
• Budget support for projects proposal
• Sell CERs
• Receiving information on price indentification of CERs
• Project’s products are prioritized for consumption

Other Rights on CERs utilization, management, price, and other finance rules
of CERs
1.2. Decree No. 06/2022/NĐ-CP (Jan.7th, 2022) for
GHG emission reduction and Ozon layer protection
Main contents
• GHG emission reduction; organization and development of carbon
trade.
• Ozon layer protection.
• Some solutions
 Process to promote C-credit trade of the
Government
- Establishing the C-credit policies
management,
- Exchanging C-credit quota;
- Operating C-credit trading flatform

2023 2027 2028 2050

Oct. : CT Group has officially Offical operation NET ZERO
introduced the carbon credit of C-credit trade
trading platform ASEAN joint
stock company (CCTPA), the first
of its kind in Việt Nam.
 II. Mechanisms of C-credit
2.1. Clean Development Mechanism
(CDM)
- Under the requirement of Kyoto 2.4. Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)
Protocol
- Unit: CERs (1 CER = 1 ton C emission
reduction)

2.2. Golden Standard (GS)

2.3. Global conservation Standard (GCS)
1.3. Decission 150/QĐ-TTg for Sustainable agricultural and
rural development strategy for the period 2021-2030, vision
to 2050.
- Reducing 10% GHG emission in agricultural activities in 2030 in compared
with that of year 2020.
- Promoting the trial and extension of agricultural models: saving resources
and reducing emissions, etc.
- Research and development of production systems, effectively use of
natural resources, environmental friendliness, and reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions.
- Application of techniques to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through
effectively use of by-products and agricultural waste.
II. C-credit Situation in Vietnam
* At present:
- Việt Nam projects approximately 10.8 million voluntary carbon credits annually.
- a total of 1,912 enterprises across the country are required to conduct
greenhouse gas emission inventories and meet specific emission quotas.
• By 2030: Vietnam will reduce its total GHG emissions by 9% compared to the
national BAU, equivalent to 83.9 million tons of CO2, in which, the
agricultural sector is 6.8 million tons of CO2 Bn, up 0.7% compared to BAU
countries;
(BAU: business as usual)
(CARBON MARKETS IN VIETNAM BRIEFING PAPER, USAID, 2022)
III. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CARBON MARKET IN
VIETNAM WITHIN AGRICULTURAL FIELD
● Converting long-day rice varieties with short-day varieties.
● Applying water withdrawal between crops and alternating wet and dry
irrigation.
● Applying integrated crop management (ICM), the 3-decrease-3-
increase (3G3T) program, and the 1-must-5-decrease (1P5G).
● Converting inefficient rice areas to rice-shrimp and rice-rice models to
upland crops (maize, beans, fruit trees, and perennial industrial crops).
(continuous)
● Improving diets with imported, industrially produced, or self-added
feed.
● Collecting and treating livestock organic matter as organic fertilizer.
● Applying water-saving irrigation technology, drip irrigation integrated
with fertilizer, with hundreds of hectares of coffee being implemented.
● Eliminating straw burning after harvest.
 Carbonization
situation in Vietnam
LIST OF CONTENT

I. Some basic informations

II. Some used techniques in VietNam
III. Popular uses of biochar in Agriculture
I. SOME BASIC INFORMATIONS
• Potential of biomass:
- Rice: 52.15 mil. tons;
- Annual crops: 99.46 mil. tons;
- Fruit crops: 3.85 mil. tons;
- Industrial crops: 26.52 mil. tons).
• Approximatelly 100 biochar companies, yield …
• Used technique: - pyrolysis (biochar is main-product, for sale or export)
- gasification (biochar is by-product) for energy (in
sugarcane companies).
- small scale-pyrolysis for cooking.
II. SOME USED TECHNIQUES

Commercial biochar for

export

Household cooking equipments

Gasification for electric in
sugarcane company
III. USED BIOCHAR WITHIN AGRICULTURE

- For making compost

- For reducing smell within livestock

- Meeting and conferences on biochar in 2022 in VN

LIST OF BIOCHAR PROJECTS IN VIET NAM
- Promoting the business model of small-scale pyrolysis systems in
Vietnam. (2020-2022; Implemented by Vietnam cleaer production
centre company, in collaborated with UNIDO);
- Promoting supply and demand for ecological and fair agricultural
processing products in Vietnam (2020-2023);
- Building a model of farmers producing biochar from agricultural
waste and applying it in crop cultivation, provincial projects in some
province;
- ….
- Company in charge of C-credit calculation (I am not sure)
https://eec.vn/en/carbon-credit-projects/