A campaign for a cleaner world was launched in the southern city of Can Tho on September 20, 2008 with the participation of almost 2,000 people.
The event was co-sponsored by the General Confederation of Labour (VGCL), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Australian Embassy. The campaign, themed “Action today, future safety - Let make the air cleaner”, called on people to take action for environmental protection against climate change. VGCL president Dang Ngoc Tung called for active response from members for “a green, clean and beautiful”. The launch was followed by a parade of 1,400 public employees and workers and 400 bicycles, holding banners on reducing green-house gas emission as a solution to air pollution. The parade participants planted trees at the Huyndai Auto company’s park and other enterprises in the Tra Noc industrial zone and cleaned some roads in the city.
