CEN - Center for Environment and Natural Resources

Center for Environment and Natural Resources (referred to as CEN in abbreviation) is an organization of science and technology established in 2010 under the Hanoi Union of Science and Technology Associations. Currently, Vietnam is facing a series of challenges towards its sustainable development goals, including:

1) Environmental pollution tends to increase in many places;
2) Resources are over-e

xploited, inefficiently and unsustainably used, leading to rapid degradation and depletion;
3) The area of ​​natural ecosystems is narrowed, biodiversity is sharply reduced;
4) Climate change is complicated and unpredictable, affecting many aspects of economic, social and environmental life;
5) There are still many challenges and barriers to realizing the goal of eliminating gender discrimination, creating equal opportunities for men and women in socio-economic development and human resource development, and achieving substantive equality of gender relations between men and women and to establish and strengthen cooperative and supportive relations between men and women in all areas of social and family life. Accordingly, the activities of the CEN focus on addressing goals 5, 13, 14, 15 of the world's 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the period 2015 - 2030, including:


1) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Goal 5);
2) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (Goal 13);
3) Conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Goal 14).
4) Protect, regenerate and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, manage forest resources sustainably, combat desertification, combat soil erosion and biodiversity loss (Goal 15).