Provincial Green Index

The Vietnam Provincial Green Index (PGI) will continue to track and compare environmental performance across Vietnam’s 32 provinces, following recent administrative mergers. Using business and government surveys, it will measure clean technology adoption, pollution control, renewable energy use, and regulatory efficiency. The PGI highlights best practices, identifies challenges, and encourages healthy competition among provinces to pursue greener growth. By linking evidence to policy, it empowers leaders, businesses, and communities to align development with sustainability. As Vietnam faces climate and pollution pressures, the PGI helps ensure progress toward a resilient, low-carbon society and supports the nation’s commitment to net-zero by 2050.

The overall objective of the Provincial Green Index (PGI) project is to strengthen environmental governance across Vietnam’s 32 provinces by producing an annual, evidence-based index that informs policy reform, drives sustainable business practices, and guides investment decisions. The project has four specific, measurable objectives. First, to generate reliable and comparable data on environmental governance by conducting an annual enterprise survey with over 14,000 foreign and domestic firms and collecting administrative data from all provinces. Second, to develop and calibrate a robust index, producing validated sub-indices and composite scores for all provinces by the fourth quarter each year. Third, to disseminate findings widely through annual bilingual reports, policy briefs, and at least 10 dissemination events per year, ensuring broad awareness among policymakers, businesses, and the public, with a media reach of over 500,000 citizens and businesses annually. Fourth, to encourage adoption of green policies and practices, with at least 15 provinces per year incorporating PGI findings into action plans, leading to 20 documented reforms by the end of the project and a 25% increase in businesses reporting improved environmental governance.