ASOSAI SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT

ASOSAI SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Country paper by: Vietnam SAI October, Zhangzhou, China... • Introduction • Current Environmental issues in Vietnam • Vietnam special measures to pr

ASOSAI SEMINAR

ON ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT

Country paper by: Vietnam SAI

October, Zhangzhou, China

• Introduction

• Current Environmental issues in Vietnam

• Vietnam special measures to protect

environment

• Vietnam SAI’s current situation on

environmental audit

Introduction on Vietnam

• Name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam

• Area: total 329,560 sq km

land: 325,360 sq km water: 4,200 sq km.

• Population: 86 million

Introduction on SAV

• SAV was set up in 1994

• Law on State Audit was promulgated in 2006

• Auditor General was elected by National Assembly

• Audit all agencies which uses State budget

• 3 types of audit: financial statement, compliance and

performance

• Environmental audit is not required by the Law on State

Audit

THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION

1.Health effects:

- The WHO states that 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution; with 1.5 million of these deaths attributable to indoor air pollution

- Major heath effect include:

• Acute (short-term but server) illness, or death

• Chronic (long-term) respiratory illness, including bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and possible lung cancer

• Temporary eye and throat irritation, coughing, chest pain and malaise or general discomfort

2 Economic effects:

- People have to pay more for health expenditure

- Machinery will be eroded more quickly by toxic chemicals in polluted air

- Requiring larger budget to carry out the environment protect policy

THE EFFECTS OF AIR

POLLUTION

RELATION BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND AIR

POLLUTION

- Air pollution is one of the reasons of climate change because it effect directly on the atmosphere

- Opposite, a temperate climate with cool and windy weather will help to restrict dust and pollutants in the air

by diffusing them up to higher ozone.

Current situation on environment in

Vietnam

1 Transportations: The number of motorbike is increasing quickly

2 Industry: VN is the developing country so the number of industrial zones and construction buildings are increasing quickly

3 The habit of using coal for cooking in rural areas

4 The situation of deforestation is becoming so seriously

• Flood and drought: Usually happen during

the year

• In 2007: The coldest year during past 50

years

• The situation of sea water trespass on

land is becoming seriously

Vietnam measures to protect

environment

1992: Constitution

1994: Law on Environmental Protection

The 2001-2010 National Strategy

• Preventing and controlling pollution

• Protecting, conserving and sustainable using natural resources

• Improving environmental quality in urban, industrial and rural areas

Measures (Cont’)

Action Plan

• Sustainable development,

• Solid waste and water management,

• Forest management, and

• Strengthening environmental institutions,

environmental education and community participation

Measures ( Cont’)

1 Method of scheme, infrastructure investment: especially for transportation network

2 Method of restricting the unprompted increase

of vehicle: to reinforce the public transportation mediums (bus), step by step to build the more modern transportation mediums such as metro, tram,…

Measures (Cont’)

3 Use clean fuel: Continue substituting

unleaded petrol for gasoline

4 Improve the quality of motorbike in order to reduce the emission exhaust fume to the air

5 To strengthen control of the vehicle’s

emission

6 End but not less, beside the coercion

method, it is necessary to strengthen the education, communication for community about the air pollution and it’s importance to our life/

Measures ( Cont’)

Vietnam needs around VND20,000 billion

(USD13 million) to cope with climate

changes from 2009- to 2015

(According to National Target Programme (NTP)

on Addressing Climate Change)

SAV’s situation

on environmental audit

In the past:

In last 3 years, SAV had conducted

4 audits related to environment:

SAV’s situation on environmental audit

At present:

• SAV lacks experiences in providing the

recommendations to improve the quality of

environment,

• SAV sends its staffs to attend the international

training courses to share the experiences with other colleagues,

• SAV actively takes part in the INTOSAI and

ASOSAI WGEA’ programs,

• Environmental audit group was set up in early

this year.

Vietnam SAI’s situation on

environmental audit

In the future:

• It is planed to conduct the first

environmental audit in 2010,

• Environmental audit Department will be

set up in 2012;

• An agreement on annual environmental

audit should be signed between SAV and MONRE, MOF, MOPI.

Vietnam SAI’s situation on

environmental audit

In the future:

• SAV’ strategy to conduct a cooperative

audit on environment with regional SAIs in near future.

• To make supplementary articles on

environmental audit in Law on State Audit.

Thank you ! Hope to see you in Viet Nam!