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A symposium that aims to promote cooperation to address climate change impacts in the Red River Delta was held in Hai Phong on February 24 and 25.

Experienced Dutch specialists are joining their Vietnamese peers at a two-day conference in Can Tho city to outline solutions and build plans to adapt the Mekong Delta to climate change.

Saltwater is likely to intrude as far as 70km in Tien and Hau River, the two main tributaries of Mekong River in the Mekong Delta, said the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Measures to adapt the Mekong Delta’s agricultural activities to the impacts of climate change, particularly drought and saltwater intrusion, lay at the heart of a forum on February 19.

Over 1,000ha of winter-spring rice in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has been damaged by saltwater intrusion, according to the provincial agriculture sector.

HCM City will face its most severe drought in six decades over the next few months.

Knowledge of climate change, its impacts and measures to tackle and respond to the issue have been introduced to officials in Quang Ngai and Lai Chau provinces in a project supported by the UNDP.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has requested Ministries and sectors to accelerate the building of action plans for implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Ministry of Finance have submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister to ask for rice supply to drought-stricken localities.

Localities in the Mekong Delta region have been urged to accelerate agricultural restructuring and shift the crop structure to effectively adapt to climate change.

The significance of the outcomes of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris was highlighted at a press conference in Hanoi on December 16.

The Forest Sector Support Partnership (FSSP) will shift its focus to climate change and the sustainable protection of wildlife animals and forest in the years to come.

Vietnam is among the developing countries that received support from the French Agency for Development (AFD) to deal with climate change.

Vietnam built an “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions" (INDC) report on climate change and is implementing the report in an effort to respond to climate change.

ASEAN is particularly concerned about climate change which has been causing substantial damage to the region.

Over 70 percent of businesses in the Mekong Delta are suffering from the potentially devastating effects of climate change.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung co-chaired a high-level dialogue on responding to climate change in the Mekong Delta region held in Paris on November 30.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) that opened in Paris on November 30.

Climate change adaptation models piloted in the central province of Quang Nam have reaped successes, heard a workshop held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Danish Embassy.