According to the “Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the 2021-2025 period”, forestry development will truly become a modern, effective, efficient and highly competitive economic-technical sector, linked in a chain from forest development, forest protection, forest use to forest product processing and trade; managing, protecting, developing and sustainably using forest areas and land areas planned for forestry development.
Forestry development aims to promote the potential, role and effects of forests to contribute to creating jobs and income for people, associated with protecting the ecological environment, conserving biodiversity, minimizing negative impacts caused by natural disasters, enhancing the ability to adapt to climate change; contributing to protecting national defense and security.
Vietnam has participated in bilateral and multilateral international trade agreements, including in the field of Wood and forest products for export require the development of stable raw material areas with legal origins according to regulations, ensuring quality and competitive prices. On the other hand, Vietnam as well as many countries in the world are currently facing complex and unpredictable climate change, so the task of protecting and developing forests is even more difficult, requiring responsible participation of the social community, requiring the attention of the entire political system.
Vietnam has also committed to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050 and reducing greenhouse gas methane emissions by 30% by 2030 at the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. climate change (COP26). Accordingly, sustainable forest development to absorb CO2 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions has become one of the key tasks of the forestry sector and the whole society in the current period.
On October 25, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Decree No. 140/2024/ND-CP regulating the liquidation of planted forests. Accordingly, there are two types of planted forests that are liquidated. These are: planted forests in the investment phase that are damaged due to one of the following reasons: natural disasters according to the provisions of the law on natural disaster prevention; due to pests, diseases and other organisms that harm forests and do not meet the acceptance criteria after planting forests according to the provisions of the law on investment in silvicultural works; planted forests after the investment phase that are damaged due to the above reasons and do not meet the national standards for planted forests.
Previously, on August 24, 2024, to build the forestry sector into an economic and technical sector on the basis of establishing, managing, protecting, developing and sustainably using forest resources and forestry land; ensuring broad and equal participation of organizations and individuals in forestry activities, mobilizing social resources; maximizing the potential, role and value of forests for sustainable development; increasingly contributing to the process of socio-economic development, environmental protection, and natural resource conservation, biodiversity and respond to climate change, the Prime Minister has issued a Decision approving the national forestry for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
In order to gradually and effectively implement the Government's "Vietnam Forestry Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050", the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 809/QD-TTg approving the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the 2021-2025 period, requiring that forestry development must truly become an effective economic sector associated with protecting the ecological environment, conserving biodiversity, enhancing the ability to adapt to climate change, minimizing negative impacts caused by natural disasters, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, absorbing and storing carbon from forests, contributing to implementing Vietnam's commitments at the COP26 Conference; contributing to protecting national defense and security.
Protect and sustainably develop the entire existing forest area and newly created forest area in the 2021-2025 period; contribute to maintaining a stable national forest cover rate of about 42%; continue to improve forest productivity and quality, meet the requirements of supplying raw materials for production and consumption, protecting and protecting the environment, conserving biodiversity, minimizing negative impacts caused by natural disasters, and enhancing the ability to adapt to climate change;
Increase the value of forestry production by 5 to 5.5% per year. The export value of timber and non-timber forest products will reach about 20 billion USD by 2025, of which the export value of non-timber forest products will reach more than 1.5 billion USD, increasing the proportion of deep processing and exporting high value-added timber and forest products. At the same time, the target is that by 2025, the income from planted forests, which are production forests, will increase by an average of about 1.5 times per unit area compared to 2020.
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