Abstract
Balancing between economic growth and environmental protection is the core of sustainable development. However, both developed and developing countries are facing many difficulties in dealing with global challenges such as climate change, pollution and resource shortage. In an effort to promote environmental protection and legislate punishment, environmental crimes have been included in criminal law. In order to increase its effectiveness, criminal law on environmental crimes need to be further specified, such as identification of environmental offences, inclusion of new offences, expansion of scope of application, increase on fine, and supplement existing sanctions for environmental offences. These changes can bring tremendous impacts on Vietnam’s sustainable development in the nearfuture.
Highlights
In recent years, the application of criminal law in the field of environmental protection has achieved positive results, but has revealed many difficulties and obstacles
Environmental crimes in Vietnam are most common in the following areas:
3.3 New changes in the Criminal Code on environmental crimes in 2018: amendments to meet the requirements of sustainable development in Vietnam
Summary
The application of criminal law in the field of environmental protection has achieved positive results, but has revealed many difficulties and obstacles. Statistics of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam show that, despite the increase in air and water pollution, deforestation and illegal wildlife trading, environmental crimes from 2008 to 2018 accounted for only 0.34% of the total number of criminal cases nationwide and 0.35% of the total number of defendants committing crimes.
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