The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has endorsed a 200 billion VND budget for its climate change response plan.

With the budget, the city plans to recruit 12,800 businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to implement the use of clean, renewable energy and grow more trees in its 24 districts.

At a seminar introducing the plan on September 29, Dao Anh Kiet, director of the municipal department for natural resources and the environment, said the initial results of the plan will be presented to the Climate Summit for Mayors to be held in Copenhagen , Denmark , in December.

In May, HCM City was admitted to the C40 – a group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change.

The city, which is the country’s largest economic hub, has since received financial and technological assistance from the group to improve its agencies’ capacity in responding to climate change./.