 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I'm very pleased to be here. From yesterday to today, the conference is talking about the mainly development and economic institutional reforms. So let me introduce you a little bit different on the institutional framework on environment protection in Vietnam and some recent reforms and development. So the outline of my presentation is firstly to review some Vietnam environment and context now and then provide you a review on the policy and institutional arrangement on environment protection in Vietnam, some recent developments and lessons learned. In other Vietnam context, you know that we have achieved quite a remarkable economic role, but it has slowed down from 2008 until now. And with the economic role, our poverty reduction have achieved also a remarkable success, which is Vietnam is one of the examples of the event in this field. The reason for that is we have pushed up the industrialization process of the country. You see here in terms of the industrial production value and the number of the labor in the industrial sector. And also the share of the industry sector of the GDP is increasing while the agriculture is decreasing. But we have to emphasize that the economic role of Vietnam is brown with the environment degradation. The picture here shows you the air pollution, the total solid particulate concentration in mixed cities in Vietnam continuously exceeded the standard. You see the red line and the blue line. Most monitoring data in the Hanoi, Hue, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City and many others exceeded the standard. And also the surface water is polluted, the data here shows for the BOD-5 in the Saigon River in the period of 2007 to 2011 exceeded the standard. And also the biodiversity decline is another issue while we have degradation in terms of ecosystem, especially here is the mangrove area, the decline in the number of the wild animals. It is increasing in the Red Book and also alliance plants and animals in the country. Another very, very pressing issue for Vietnam also is climate change impact. Vietnam has been forecasted to be one of the most seriously affected countries by climate change in the world. And the Maekong River Delta is one of the three most seriously affected in the world together with Danang and the Ngong River Delta. In the past 50 years the temperature of Vietnam has raised 0.5 to 0.7 and the C11 rise, another issue of Vietnam, has risen about 20 centimeters. And it is forecasted that by the end of this century the temperature would increase by 2 to 3 centigrade and C11 rise would raise one meter. If that happened you would see that the Maekong River would be submerged under the sea water. So about the institutional framework on environmental protection in Vietnam. Firstly about the legislation, policy in legislation. In Vietnam we have, in terms of environmental protection law, we have the law on environmental protection adopted in 1993 firstly and then revised in 2005 and now this has been amended in the last week adopted by the National Assembly. We have biotic law in 2008, we have law on environmental protection tax in 2010. And beside that we have related sector laws including like landage law, water resource law, law on forest development and protection, law on fisheries, law on saving and efficient use of energy and etc. About the environmental protection policy we can divide it into four groups. The third one is a pollution prevention and control. The second one is a rehabilitation of degraded area and improvement of environmental quality. The third one is the sustainable use of natural resources and biodiversity conservation. And the fourth one is responding to the policy on responding to climate change. I'll give you in a little bit a detail of these four groups so you can imagine on how is our policies. First on pollution prevention and control. We do the strategic environmental assessment or we call it SEA and the environmental impact assessment to prevent the future environmental pollution impact. We also require production, trade and services to control environmental protection in their activities and also to promote cleaner production, waste studies and applying the ISO 14000. And we do promote the integrated waste management with the 3R concept, reduce, reuse and recycle to control the illegal waste imports and also importing of outdated technology and equipment and to handle completely with zero polluting establishment we go with craft villages and environmental health spots. In Vietnam we have around 1400 craft villages which are so seriously polluting sources. A second group is rehabilitation of the degraded area and improvement of environmental quality. We are now conducting treatment of contaminated sites by Asian deoxyne in Da Nang, Binh Hoa. These sites are polluted by the war, the American war. We are also conducting treatment of canine lakes and other field sites contaminated by wastewater in urban area. And we are also improving the air, trying to improve the air quality in urban areas by promoting public transportation, application of tighter vacant standards and usage of cleaner fuel. We are also improving the water supply in the urban and rural area and we also rehabilitating and degraded natural ecosystem especially in the coastal mangrove forests. About the promote of sustainability use of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity, we are trying to protect the land environment from pollution infertility and desertification and to improve the water resources use, the efficiency of water resources use and reducing the water scarcity within reason and between seasons. We try to increase our forest cover by planting the forest and also to protect the natural forest. Now the biodiversity conservation, we develop a system of natural and protected areas and to maintain these protected areas. And we develop and implement programs on water species conservation, control of invasive alliance and conservation of gene and control the risk posed by the genetically modified organism. Here you can see the changing of the forest cover in Vietnam from 1943 until 2012. Talking about the policy on strength and capacity in respect to climate change, our priorities is adaptation because the emission of Vietnam is not high as compared with other countries. We try to strengthen our capacity on monitoring for casting and warning on climate change and disaster. We are developing the infrastructure like sea dyes and dams for prevention and restraint of impact by sea level rise of a disaster. And also we have a strategy on the mitigation of the damage from natural disaster. About mitigation, we promote energy efficiencies, promote the development of renewable energy and also, as I said before, is increasing the GHZ sink through the forest plantation. We are also carrying out the GHZ inventories to report to the UN FCC and also implementing national appropriate mitigation actions. Those are the four groups of policies on environmental protection in Vietnam. Let me share with you some institutional arrangements on environmental protection. Vertically, our administration divided in four levels, national, provincial and district and commode level. And at the national level, the MONDRAE, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is the Responsible Ministry for Environmental Protection, besides it covers also other natural resources, sub-sector like land use, water resource, geology, marine, sea and island and et cetera. Under MONDRAE, we have the Vietnam Environment Administration, or VA, responsible for the environment management. At the provincial level, we have the Department of Natural Resources Environment, we call LONGRAE, under which we have also the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, responsible for environmental protection within the province in Vietnam. We have 63 provinces. And at District 7, we have a division on the Natural Resources Environment, and at the commode level, we have usually have the environment officer. Horizontally in Vietnam, the environment protection is decentralized to other ministries also. So here you can see that MONDRAE is a focus for environmental protection, but in other ministries like Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Rural and Rural Development, they have a department on the Responsible for Environmental Protection. And maybe different from other countries, we have Environment and Police, it's under Ministry of Police in Vietnam. So those are the institutional framework on environmental protection in Vietnam. Now I would like to share with you some recent reforms in the field of environmental protection in Vietnam. Firstly, it is the national strategy on green growth. You see in the first part of the presentation that the economic growth in Vietnam is brown. So the government adopts this national strategy for green growth in 2012 is trying to change to shift the brown model of growth into the green. And the objective is the green growth as the means to achieve the low carbon and enrich national capital to become a principal direction of sustainable economic development in Vietnam. And the key area of this strategy is three areas that firstly is reducing the greenhouse emission intensities. And secondly is greening production and thirdly is greening lifestyle and consumption. Second reform I would like to share with you is this adopted last week in the law on environmental protection is the environmental planning. Environmental planning is this law refers to the ecological and front-front toning and also the plan on the environmental infrastructure for environmental protection. Ecological and front-front toning here is to divide the country into different ecologic zones for different development or conservation purpose. And this division is based on the ecological characteristics, resource potential and adaptation capacity to climate change of the region. The third one is the realization of extended producer responsibilities. Extended producer responsibility is the tool in the pollution control that requires producer and importer of certain products have the responsibility to like to take back and treat in an environmentally friendly manner these discarded products. And these tools have been applied in many other countries, especially in developed countries but Vietnam. It has been introduced in 2005 but now is realized by the Prime Minister decision. And the last reform I would like to share here is the payment for forest environment services. Maybe Vietnam is the first country in Asia to apply this tool. This has been piloted two years in 2008, 2009 and then applied nationwide from 2010 by a decree of the government. The mechanism of this tool is that the company and the hydropower companies, water supply company and tourism company in downstream of river pay to the forest household that keep the forest, protect the forest in upstream of river to protect the forest so that keep the water and keep the dam not to avoid the sediment. So the payer here is a hydropower plant, water supply company, tourism companies and the pay is the forest protection house of upstream communities, upstream area. The rate here is 20 Vietnam Dong per kilowatt hour of hydroelectricities, 40 Vietnam Dong per cubic meter of water supplies and 1 to 2 percent of gross revenue of eco tourism companies. The revenues from 2009 until last year, 2013 is around 140 millions of US dollars and mainly come from the hydro power plants. However, there are still some difficulties in this birthment of this collected revenue, meaning that only 45 percent of this collected revenue have been paid to the household. It is due to difficulties in inventory of the forest and the type of forest, etc. So some lessons learned from this environment protection in Vietnam in some recent reform is that we are witnessing that green economy can become a new world paradigm and recommended by the UN for the developing country like Vietnam with the concept of tracing us to enrichment of natural capital, low carbon development and low zero waste developments. We see that institutional reform play an important role to create enabling conditions for promoting the green world. Participation of communities and business sector are very important in implementation of this institutional reform and governments just play a trick-or-ring role. In some cases, like in case of the payment for forest environment services, to ensure success, this policy should be better be piloted in a small area before applied nationwide. Then it's key to bring into the success. Also lesson learned from other countries are very important in international support play quality role for successful implementation such as a case of payment for environmental services. So thank you very much for your attention.