Both the UK and Vietnam have shown significant commitments to address grand challenges related to the global climate change and moving towards sustainable future with net zero pollution. The UK together with the European Union and other nations recently demonstrate strong support a $15.5 billion - Just Energy Transition Partnership package for Vietnam's ambitious Net Zero 2050 goal. 

This page is dedicated to collaborative research efforts between Imperial College London and its key partners in Vietnam, in particular with Hanoi University of Science of Technology (HUST) in key Net Zero science and technologies to support the two countries in combating the climate change.

With support from the UK's International Science Partnerships Fund, we organised the 1st UK-VN International workshop on Net Zero in 2023, attracting more than 200 participants. After a great success of the past year's event, we have received an additional fund to create a UK-VN Network for Hydrogen and Related Technologies. Green hydrogen is identified as a key solution to achieve the Net Zero future. With abundant renewable energies, Vietnam has considerable potential to significantly decarbonise its economy using green hydrogen to meet its COP26 commitments while maintaining its business strength and improving the wellbeing of people, and act as a hydrogen hub for neighbouring countries, joining the global’s efforts in combating the climate change and contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13.

About the organising institutions

Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities, Imperial is committed to developing  the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines. Located in the heart of London,  Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) is the Vietnam’s oldest and largest technical university having been founded in 1956. HUST is a multidisciplinary research university in which scientific research is a main force and has a strong commitment to human development, high-quality workforce training, scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge transfer that serves our country and global society. The university has identified eight multidisciplinary research strengths including food technology, dynamic engineering and biotechnology and life sciences. It has eight National Key Laboratories and ranked second in the Nature index for Vietnam for 2018-9.

Sponsorship:

We thank the UK's International Science Partnerships Fund for providing financial support via two grants: funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences (NGR1\2090), and the British Council's UK/Vietnam Season 2023 Collaboration Grant.

We also thank tremendous support provided by colleagues at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) and Imperial College London (UK)