VietNamNet Bridge – Regional co-operation is needed to cope with climate change in Southeast Asia, speakers said yesterday, June 4, at a symposium held in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho. Eighty local and foreign experts in global-warming adaptation are in Can Tho for a regional symposium that involves government partners, non-government organisations (NGOs), donor agencies and corporate partners. Experts at the three-day event are discussing innovative climate-change mitigation models that have been successfully implemented in Southeast Asia. The goals of the symposium include creating a dialogue between partners in the ASEAN community and designing effective community-based climate-change adaptation models. Two to three possible adaptation measures will be taken back to each partner office to share with the local community in Can Tho. The community partners will then help design the preferred adaptation models. Based upon the local context in Laos and Viet Nam, … [Read more...] about Coping with climate change
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Norway funds climate change impact curbs
Norway will provide Viet Nam with nearly US$476,000 to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production.—Photo chinhphu HA NOI (VNS)— Norway will provide Viet Nam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production. The project will be conducted in the northern province of Nam Dinh and the Mekong Delta provinces of Soc Trang and Tra Vinh from next month. The Norwegian Embassy and the Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences signed the agreement for the project in Ha Noi on Wednesday. — VNS … [Read more...] about Norway funds climate change impact curbs
City budgets $3.3b for climate change plan
CM City has earmarked VND70.54 trillion ($3.3 billion) for 36 projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, which is expected to severely affect the city. Based on assessments of the impacts, HCM City will have action programmes in various phases to ensure they do not impact development. It will focus on developing an energy-efficient economy as a cornerstone of its efforts to combat climate change. It will also rely on international co-operation to take measures against climate change. Scientists fear HCM City will be one of 10 worst-hit cities in the world in case of climate change. … [Read more...] about City budgets $3.3b for climate change plan
VN knuckles down on climate-change
VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday, Jan 11, chaired the first working session of the National Committee on Climate Change, two days after its official establishment. Dung said response to climate change and sea level rise was a matter of life or death to the nation's sustainable development, and that Viet Nam had to start taking drastic measures right away or it would be too late. He said it was not until now that Viet Nam realised the vital importance of responding to climate change. Since 2008, Viet Nam has constructed a National Target Programme to respond to climate change. However, the efficiency has been low due to limited resources and weak co-operation between relevant stakeholders. The National Committee on Climate Change hopes to help address this. One of the committee's tasks is to advise and consult the Government and Prime Minister on important matters relating to inter-agency responsibilities with … [Read more...] about VN knuckles down on climate-change
Target programme for climate change response and green growth approved
The Prime Minister has approved the National Target Programme for Climate Change Response and Green Growth for the 2016-2020 period. The programme aims to enhance the capacity of the whole country in responding to climate change and simultaneously implement measures to adapt to the negative impact of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emission. It also aims to strengthen the people’s capacity to adapt to climate change and develop green growth towards a low carbon economy, whilst natural capital enrichment will become the mainstream with regards to sustainable economic development. Accordingly, 30 transitional projects in Document No. 1443/TTg-QHQT dated September 19, 2012 by the PM and 42 projects on mangrove afforestation in the PM’s Document No.78/TTg-QHQT dated on January 16, 2015, as well as a number of priority projects, are expected to be completed by 2020. A number of urgent priority projects to deal with the impact of natural disasters in the context of … [Read more...] about Target programme for climate change response and green growth approved