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Germany urged to aid Mekong Delta in climate change adaptation

Dep PM Vuong Dinh Hue has called on the German Government and GIZ to continue helping Vietnam with building policies for regional connectivity and response to climate change in the Mekong Delta.
Germany urged to aid Mekong Delta in climate change adaptation ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue (R) and Development Counsellor and First Secretary of the German Embassy in Vietnam Luisa Bergfeld (Source: VNA)

Can Tho (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister VuongDinh Hue has called on the German Government and the German Agency forInternational Cooperation (GIZ) to continue helping Vietnam with the planningwork and building policies and institutions for regional connectivity and responseto climate change in the Mekong Delta.

Hue expressed made the call at a reception in Can Tho onSeptember 26 for Luisa Bergfeld, Development Counsellor and First Secretary ofthe German Embassy in Vietnam, and GIZ Director Jasper Abramowski, which washeld on the sidelines of the Conference on Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Development ofthe Mekong Delta.

He expected that the German Government and the GIZ willcontinue assisting Vietnam in planning and analysing potentials and strengthsof each province and establishing a development sharing database in the MekongDelta region.

Having noted that climate change has caused direct impacts onthe lives and production of local residents in the Mekong Delta, the Deputy PMsuggested the GIZ to offer assistance in human resources to manage localnatural resources, and support localities in the region to restructureagriculture and cultivate crops that are resistant to saltwater intrusion.

Regarding renewable energy, Hue said the Mekong Delta regionhas a lot of potentials in this field and hoped Germany to analyse and evaluatethe region’s potentials in wind, solar, and biomass energy and support the implementationof some pilot projects on renewable energy.

Luisa affirmed that the German Government will work closely withits Vietnamese counterpart in the fields of finance and technique.
The negotiations between the two governments in 2017 and 2018aim to build cooperation plans in the following years, she said, adding thatGermany is particularly interested in coastal environmental protection inVietnam.

She took this occasion to invite leaders of the VietnameseGovernment to attend a ceremony to be hosted by the German Embassy in Hanoi tocelebrate the Day of German Unity (October 3).-VNA
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