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DPM Tran Hong Ha receives Australian professor of energy and climate change
VGP - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on Tuesday received Professor of energy and climate change Frank Jotzo from the Australian National University who is on a working visit to Viet Nam.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha (R) and Professor of energy and climate change Frank Jotzo from the Australian National University, Ha Noi, July 11, 2023 - Photo: VNA
Ha spoke highly of Australia’s outstanding achievements in materializing the international commitments on climate change adaptation and energy transition, in which Australian scholars, including Jotzo, have played an important role.
The two countries have many cooperation priorities related to climate change adaptation, net zero emissions, and just energy transition, said Tran.
Experts and scientists of Australia have an important role to play in transferring technology, giving advice, and supporting Viet Nam in perfecting mechanisms, policies and laws, he added.
The Deputy Prime Minister said Viet Nam has paid attention to human resources training, considering this a highly potential field of cooperation between the two countries.
In reply, the professor expressed his willingness to actively contribute to bilateral relationship in education-training and climate change response./.