Right to Access to Information and the Issue of Ensuring Environmental Security in Vietnam

— In the present day, environmental security is a global issue. For this reason, Vietnam has also formally stipulated the issue of “environmental security” in the Law on Environmental protection 2014. One of the important requirements for effective environmental protection, ensuring environmental security is the effective implementation of information publicization as well as the right to access to information related to environment of people in a society. However, in the Vietnamese Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (effective from January 1, 2022 replacing the Law on Environmental Protection 2014), the concept of “environmental security” no longer exists and many regulations on Environmental information disclosure has also been changed. This raises doubts about the ability to access information to protect environmental security in the near future. Therefore, this article will analyze the provisions of current Vietnamese Environment law on the issue of access to information in relation to ensuring environmental security in Vietnam. At the same time, the article also provides a preliminary assessment of relevant new regulations to contribute to the improvement of the law on access to environmental information in Vietnam.