AN UNPRECEDENTED ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY

• 20 million people are at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods, suffering from starvation when the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) are underwater by 2050.

• Air pollution kills over 50,000 people in Vietnam per year (Fuller R., 2019). Meanwhile, Hanoi and HCMC rank among the top three cities in the world with the most severe air pollution for some days (Vietnam Insider, 2019).

• Hundreds of seizures of illegal wildlife trade in recent years are linked to Vietnam. Our country is considered a major transit point and consumption market in Southeast Asia for endangered wildlife.

• Vietnam is the fourth-worst marine plastic polluter, wreaking havoc on the ecological system (Vietnam Insider, 2019).