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By Christina Ameln. Sustainability Strategist & Advisor, Purple IVY | AVPN | Sustainable Vietnam,  First Published in the Vietnam Investment Review‘s Magazine: Sustainable Development 2021: Leaving…

At these schools, students learn both technical and transversal competences to become not only highly skilled professionals but also responsible and autonomous adults who can be agents of their own development. The schools also champion greener and more sustainable tourism practices and incorporate them into their training and operations to inspire students to take actions.

Here are some examples:

In view of COVID-19 and its ongoing impacts, tourism and hospitality is undergoing deep transformation to overcome the crisis. The necessity to improve travelers’ experience to attract customers back has put destinations’ sustainability, whether in terms of community involvement or greater connection with nature, at the core of the tourism recovery debate. By training responsible workers of tomorrow and implementing green practices…

As a conclusion to the COP26 and Vietnam’s pledge to engage further in the Race to Zero emissions and to phase out coal-fired power,…

Oliver Woodruff, ARUP writes – We need to alter how we power the World, move through it, produce materials, and build it.  What is more, we must adopt ways of doing so without emitting greenhouse gases.  We must also build resilience to lessen the impacts of unavoidable climate change reflected in flooding, drought, wildfires and heatwaves. 

Richard McNally on Sustainable Vietnam examines the issue of climate finance around the upcoming COP26. As with most decisions related to the UNFCCC, things are far from clear and dependent on outcomes in other parts of the climate agreement.

By Dr. Kasia Weina, Director & Founding Partner, Evergreen Labs –  Climate change has definitely become a “hot” topic in recent years and for…

(English version) Felicitas Huong Friedrich, CSR & IC Manager Schneider Electric writes in July issue of Forbes Vietnam – A couple of years back I was in Jakarta, anxious to meet my new colleagues, whom I have never met before. They all seemed very nice and enthusiastic but over dinner, I was finding myself trying to keep up with the conversation. This was not a language barrier. A whole new world of strategic sustainability efforts opened to me while listening to my colleagues from Schneider Electric.

To read all the articles on EQUO on Sustainable Vietnam, click on:  More than just straws  Do we have to sacrifice to be sustainable? …

Being inundated with information, it can be hard to figure out where to start. Worse?Sustainability is usually seen as an action that requires additional effort, work, time – things most of us can’t spare in our busy lives. Getting back to the basics and simplifying things can help reset this.