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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted a draft decision to the Ministry of Justice to appraise an updated list of sectors and emission sources required to conduct greenhouse gas inventories in 2026. The proposal would expand the inventory scope to include hotels, shopping centers, and office buildings, with examples cited such as Aeon, GO!, JW Marriott, and Fortuna.
The draft updates the 2024 inventory list, which covers 2,705 facilities across three sectors: construction, industry and commerce, and agriculture and environment. Compared with two years earlier, the updated list adds 539 facilities.
In the construction sector, the list adds 161 more facilities. The expansion includes building materials production and commercial office buildings, with additional office towers and hotels such as Keangnam, Lotte Liễu Giai, JW Marriott Hanoi, Fortuna, Pan Pacific, and Intercontinental. It also adds shopping centers including GO!, The Garden, and Vincom.
The industry and commerce sector adds 373 facilities, making up more than 80% of the total units in the list. The largest increases are in electronics components and semiconductor manufacturing, including facilities such as Amkor, Hana Micron, and SR Tech.
The agriculture and environment sector adds 5 facilities, bringing the total to 62 units, representing over 2% of the list.
Greenhouse gas inventories are intended to provide a basis for enterprises to set future emission reduction targets and to support Vietnam’s Net Zero commitment by 2050. Based on inventory results, enterprises are expected to be allocated emission allowances and participate in the domestic carbon market.
Vietnam first issued the inventory list in 2022 and updates it every two years. The list covers facilities with energy consumption above 1,000 TOE per year. The ministry states that the 2024 list helped control 23% of total national emissions, and that this share needs to advance toward 85% under the Paris Agreement.
After data collection and updates, the ministry identified some facilities with higher consumption that were not included previously. The current update aims to ensure inventories are complete and accurate for emission management and for pilot allocation under the quota roadmap.
To support the inventory process, provincial and municipal authorities are asked to review and propose adjustments and to take responsibility for the accuracy of the list of emission facilities within their areas.
According to data for 1994–2020, Vietnam’s total greenhouse gas emissions rose from 103.8 million tons CO2e to about 472.8 million tons CO2e. Emissions are forecast to reach 928 million tons by 2030, with energy identified as the largest source.
Emissions from energy are linked to power plants and large electricity-consuming facilities, including commerce and services. For the commercial building sector, the draft list includes facilities such as Lotte Liễu Giai (nearly 44,000 toe), Keangnam (8,700 toe), Sofitel Legend Metropole (7,100 toe), and Aeon Mall Long Biên (4,600 toe).
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