"The new development financing will focus on areas which present the greatest opportunities for transformational interventions to address climate change challenges," said Ousmane Dione, World Bank Country Director for Vietnam. … [Read more...] about $84 mln World Bank credit bolsters Vietnam’s climate change fight
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Vietnam striving to minimize impacts of climate change
In addition, HCMC is going to cooperate with Osaka City to launch many project using the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the project to Support the Planning and Implementation of NAMAs in a MRV Manner (SPI-NAMA). … [Read more...] about Vietnam striving to minimize impacts of climate change
Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’
He's a leading member of a group specialising in the dangers of excessive heat, the Global Heat Health Information Network, which has drawn up guidelines to help medics cope with Covid-19. … [Read more...] about Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’
Vietnam seriously implements climate change-related commitments: Deputy PM
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has been seriously implementing its commitments related to climate change at both global and regional levels, especially within the ASEAN framework, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said while addressing a teleconferenced high-level open debate of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on July 24. This event, themed “Climate Change and Security”, was held by Germany, which holds the UNSC presidency in July, and the Like-Minded Group. It was attended by senior representatives of 21 member states of the UN and the EU, along with speakers who included a UN Assistant Secretary-General and experts from some research institutes and non-governmental organisations. In his speech, Deputy PM Minh pointed out adverse effects of climate change on livelihoods, lives, food security, and water sources of millions of people. As Vietnam is one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change, especially sea level rise and saltwater intrusion … [Read more...] about Vietnam seriously implements climate change-related commitments: Deputy PM
Climate fund targets $2.5 billion in clean energy investment for SE Asia
"It’s a big market that should be coming up the curve in a more meaningful way to promote renewables now that (they are) economic and can fit within the (power) supply plans for these countries," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. … [Read more...] about Climate fund targets $2.5 billion in clean energy investment for SE Asia
