HCM City seeks climate change adaptation cooperation with Indonesia

HCM City seeks cooperation in climate change adaptation with Indonesia

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested, together with Indonesia, establishing a network of Southeast Asian climate change-adapting cities to share experience and resources in dealing with challenges caused by urbanisation and climate change.
HCM City seeks cooperation in climate change adaptation with Indonesia ảnh 1 Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (Photo: VNA) 
Jakarta (VNA) – Secretaryof the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested,together with Indonesia, establishing a network of Southeast Asian climatechange-adapting cities to share experience and resources in dealing with challengescaused by urbanisation and climate change.

Nhan, who is also a Politburomember of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, made the suggestionduring working sessions with leaders of the Indonesian Ministry of NationalDevelopment Planning and the National Resilience Institute (NRI) in Jakarta,Indonesia, on August 22.

He lauded the results of theaction plan to deploy the Vietnam-Indonesia strategic partnership for the 2019-2023period as an important foundation for the two nations look to the 10th anniversary of the bilateral strategic partnership in 2023.

HCM City’s leader suggested that thetwo countries should expand their cooperation to innovation, start-ups andsmart urban development.

The Indonesian leaders said the delegation’svisit offered both sides a chance to share challenges facing Jakarta and HCMCity such as traffic congestion, land depression, flooding, environmentalpollution and living conditions of local residents.

Speaking highly of Nhan’sinitiative on establishing a network of Southeast Asian climate change-adaptingcities, Indonesian Minister of National Development Planning Bambang PermadiSoemantri Brodjonegoro said the idea should focus on transportation, floodingprevention and control, and environmental issues.

Both sides agreed to assignrelevant agencies to discuss ways to deal with issues of mutual concern,especially challenges regarding sea level rise, transportation, personneltraining, building economic development strategies, start-ups and innovation inthe near future.

They also exchanged views onIndonesia’s economic development vision and strategy, known as Making Indonesia4.0, its advantages and disadvantages in national strategic planning.

In the morning of the same day,Nhan paid a fact-finding trip to Jakarta’s Mass Rapid Transit system andlearned about ongoing cooperation model on anti-flooding dykes betweenIndonesia and the Netherlands.

On August 21, Nhan held a workingsession with the University of Indonesia (UI), during which he proposed thatthe UI enhances cooperation with the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi MinhCity, thus contributing to improving high-quality personnel training for thecity.

UI leaders also expressed their wishto boost ties with the city as well as Vietnamese universities in fields ofshared concern.-VNA
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