COP26 President Returns to Vietnam to Drive Progress on Clean Energy Transition
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) and COP26 President Alok Kumar Sharma. Photo: VGP “I thank Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s leadership and ongoing commitment to progressing climate action, and look forward to continued collaboration with Vietnam as we deliver the commitments of the Glasgow Climate Pact”. President of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Alok Sharma shared the above with Vietnam ’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting on August 29. On his third visit to the country as COP President, Sharma is continuing the work of the UK COP Presidency in pressing for updated climate commitments from all countries ahead of COP27 as agreed in the Glasgow Climate Pact. During a reception in Hanoi, Chinh said following COP26, Vietnam has actively worked to fulfil its commitments, VNA reported. The Vietnamese Government has established the National Steering Committee for realising Vietnam ’s commitments to COP26; built the National Power