Hue City

Vietnam
Summary
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    Population 354544
  • km 2
    Area 71.68
  • USD
    GDP 800 Million
  • emission
    Targets by N/A N/A
Targets

Targets by Hue City

Renewable energy target

 

  • The Hue City committed to increase its share of renewable energy in final energy mix in Local Government by 0% by 2020
  • The target is going to be reached by activities in Electricity and Heating & cooling sector.
Adaptation and resilience target

 

Development and implementation of detailed plans in response to climate change until 2020.

Actions
Using non-baked building materials for constructions, public and private/household facitilies. - Hue City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

Directive No. 10/CT-TTg dated 16/4/2012 issued by the Prime Minister regarding the enhanced use of non-baked materials and reducing the amount of baked clay bricks produced/used, and Directive No. 16/CT-UBND dated 29/8/2013 issued by Hue City People's Committee require that, for all constructions funded by the government, at least 50% of the building materials used are non-baked from 01/01/2014, and 100% from 01/01/2015 onwards. For constructions that are 9 storey tall or more, irrespective of whether they are funded by the goverment or private individuals, 30% is the required minimum from 01/01/2014, which is raised to 40% from 01/01/2016.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Waste
Strengthenning green area for the city by planting more and more trees - Hue City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Until 2017, the green area covering by trees (area of grass is excluded) will approximately reach 5,34 million square meters that helps increase green area per capita up to 15 square meters in the year 2017. There are approximately 110,000 trees planted from 2001 til 2017 in Hue city

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Sectors:
  • Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
  • Other Emissions
Improvement in monitoring and treatment of wastewater and solid waste - Hue City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Most of waste-water and solid waste to be monitored, collected and disposed that contributes a great deal to make Hue's environment more clean; 70 percent of waste-water will be treated before released to the rivers which helps them play their ecological roles as they should be, and 100 percent of solid waste disposed by processing wastes and bury in landfill.

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Sectors:
  • Waste
Promoting the use of renewable energy in the city's tourism activities. - Hue City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Increase awareness raising and encourage the use of renewable energy, especially solar energy, in tourism and service industry, which is Hue City's key economic sector.
It is estimated that by 2020, approximately 80% of the hotels, restaurants and other facilities that consume substantial heated water in the city will switch to using solar water heating instead of electric heaters.
There have been hundreds of big, medium and small scale hotels and other related services as well as thoundsands of residential households applied solar heating water systems which help them save very significant (at least 60%) energy cost.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
Promotion of sustainable urban tourism in Hue city with a focus on the development of garden house tours - Hue City
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

The recommended mitigation option is to reduce 9% of GHG emission in tourism tranpsort and to create more green and decent jobs for the local people. The involved activities include the preservation of garden house, encouragement of organic vegetable farms in garden house, promotion of non-motorized transport to garden houses, etc

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Sectors:
  • Transport
  • Waste
  • Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
  • Industrial processes and product use (IPPU)
  • Other Emissions
Application of smart and highly efficient lighting system, including the usage of biogas in public lighting. - Hue City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: Completed

Increased public lighting powered by biogas; replacement of fluorescent lamps by LEDs controlled by smart systems that can automatically adjust lighting duration and mode. Electricity usage from public lighting has been shown to decrease by 30%.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Waste
Inventories
Community inventories

The Hue City has reported 1 Community emission inventory, since 2011. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2011, the Stationary energy, Transport, Industrial process and product use, Waste management, Agriculture, forest and other land use and Agriculture, forest and other land use are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Hue City
GHG inventory in 2011
Government operations inventory

The Hue City has reported 1 government operational inventory, since 2011. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2011, the Industrial process and product use, Waste management and Other are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Hue City
GHG inventory in 2011
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