Promoting Green Practices - Criteria to Evaluate the Provincial Green Index in Vietnam

Promoting green practices is one of four components of the provincial green index in Vietnam. Promoting green practices measures the extent to which environmental goals are integrated into the broader state management responsibilities of provincial governments, specifically, does the government integrate environmental protection goals into general development policies, into public procurement activities, and into activities of guiding and disseminating legal regulations, practices to support businesses in "greening" their operating processes, production business models and corporate behavior. This article aims to evaluate the provincial green index of provinces and cities in 2022 through the component index "Promoting green practices", thereby examining the causes leading to different results between provinces, and learn about policies for provinces to achieve sustainable development goals through improving the PGI index in general and the component index "Promoting green practices" in particular.