Human resource shortage on climate change in many localities
In many localities, human resources for climate change are still thin, while there is almost no funding for propaganda and dissemination of laws.
The Ministry of Justice has just published documents appraising the draft Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 06/2022/ND-CP on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the atmosphere.
In particular, the draft report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment - the drafting agency - said that in the past time, the Ministry has actively directed the Department of Climate Change to organize the implementation, dissemination, propaganda and guidance for relevant subjects to seriously implement legal regulations on climate change, including the field of ocean layer protection.
The synchronous implementation of management measures has contributed significantly to helping Vietnam complete the roadmap for excluding controlled substances according to international treaties to which Vietnam is a member.
According to statistics from the International Ozone Secretariat, by August 2025, Vietnam had prevented the equivalent of 240 million tons of CO2 emissions, demonstrating strong efforts in implementing the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol.
In the coming period, with the implementation of the National Plan on Management and Exclusion of Ozone Depreciating Substances and Greenhouse effect Substances Controlled for the period 2024-2045, Vietnam plans to continue to directly reduce more than 11 million tons of CO2 equivalent, thereby affirming its commitment to accompany the international community in the goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
By the end of September 2025, 373 enterprises had registered to use controlled substances, of which more than 80 enterprises were eligible for import quotas for controlled substances.
Despite many positive results, the implementation of legal regulations on the protection of the ozone layer still has some difficulties and limitations.
First of all, many businesses and organizations that are subject to registration for the use of controlled substances have not been fully disseminated about the content of relevant legal documents.
This is especially common in the group of organizations that own controlled containers such as air conditioners with a capacity of 26.5 kW (90,000 BTU/h) or more or industrial refrigerants with an electricity capacity of 40 kW or more, including buildings, complexes, large-scale production facilities, etc.
In the process of surveying and assessing the current situation in 2024-2025, the Department of Climate Change found that in many localities, human resources for climate change are still thin, while there is almost no funding for propaganda and dissemination of laws.
Therefore, the work of guiding, disseminating and disseminating legal regulations on the protection of the ozone layer is still limited; some concurrent staff in the Departments of Agriculture and Environment (formerly the Department of Natural Resources and Environment) do not have a firm grasp of the content of the document, leading to slow dissemination and guidance for businesses in the locality.
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