For climate change

Head of the department Tang The Cuong said the ministry coordinated with relevant ministries to build a national plan on climate change response, as well as to review and update the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to be submitted to the Prime Minister for approval. … [Read more...] about National climate change strategy reviewed

The Ministry has proposed 10 solution groups in line with the Paris Accord to increase compliance with international monitoring. The Ministry’s Climate Change Administrator, Tang The Cuong spoke at the event in Hanoi on Wednesday, “Provinces have designed and finetuned their plans of actions to cope with climate change. 50 provinces have completed their plans and contributed to the enforcement of the Paris Accord and better adapt themselves to climate change.” … [Read more...] about National strategy on climate change promoted

"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

Tra Vinh (VNA) - Nearly 81 billion VND (3.48 million USD) has been disbursed by the climate change adaptation co-sponsoring fund (CCA) to support poor and near-poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh in developing climate change adaptation production models during the 2014-2019 period. The information was revealed by the Coordination Board of the “Adaptation in the Mekong Delta” (AMD) project in Tra Vinh at a meeting on June 18 to review the CCA fund in the locality. According to Huynh Nghia Tho, Director of the Coordination Board of the AMD project in Tra Vinh, the project, which is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has been implemented in the locality during 2014-2020. It aims to help 15,000 poor and near-poor families in 30 communes better their capacity in adapting to climate change and improve livelihoods. The project’s total budget is 522 billion VND (22.4 million USD), including 233.5 billion VND in … [Read more...] about Tra Vinh: Climate change adaptation project benefits the poor

In addition, the mechanism to deal with possible issues caused by climate change has been established in both local and national levels. Policies for this matter have been integrated into other fields like planning, power management, transport, construction, waste management, water resource management, and agriculture. … [Read more...] about Vietnam striving to minimize impacts of climate change