Welcome Remarks: Dr. Nguyen Thai Lai Vice Minister of Natural Resources and Environment at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON "SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT" Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, 6 th , October 2012

• Main Author: Nguyen, Thai Lai
• Other Authors: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON "SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT". Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, 6th, October 2012
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Đại học Kinh tế 2016
• Subjects: Sustainable Manufacturing and Evironment Management
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/14203
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

First of all, on behalf of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, I would like to thank VNU University of Economics and Business, and JSPS Asian CORE Program, Nagoya University who have invited me to attend and make a welcome remarks at the International Conference "Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Management", which is held solemnly with the participation of hundreds of economic, environmental scholars, natural resource manager and policy makers from Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam and other multilateral organizations to discuss a very interested issue in this time. As you may know, the world today is facing big challenges, which are: global warming; land degradation and desertification; freshwater scarcity; exhausted exploitation in non-renewable resources; decline in habitat quality; forest destroyed; extinction of rare species , etc., and they have directly threatened to the non-traditional security (food security, energy security …etc.) of life on earth.