Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has shown strong performance in building and implementingpolicy actions related to climate change it committed to development partners,stated Pham Van Tan, deputy head of the Department of Climate Change under theMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Tan made the statementat a plenary meeting of the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change(SP-RCC) in Hanoi on October 18 to review the monitoring of policy frameworksupporting climate change response in 2016, 2017 and 2018, as well as to seekways to overcome difficulties in the future.
He noted that 24policy actions were launched in 2016, and 25 in 2017. In 2018, 12 out of the 29actions have been completed. Ministries, sectors and relevant agencies havealso worked hard to finish all committed actions.
Regarding difficultiesarising in the implementation process, Tan pointed to changes of laws as wellas functions, tasks, authority and organisation of relevant agencies.
Representatives fromdonors such as the French Development Agency, the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency and the World Bank recognised efforts of Vietnam in policyactions in the policy frameworks of 2016, 2017 and 2018.
They asked Vietnameseministries and sectors to continue supervising the process and give evaluationsin the future to finish the actions underway, thus completing all set targets.
Deputy Minister ofNatural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh proposed that after thedevelopment partners finalise the memoranda of understanding, the SP-RCCcoordination committee should send them to relevant agencies for bettersupervision.
After the meeting, theDepartment of Climate Change should summarise all evaluations and submit areport to leading officials of the ministry, thus soon issuing a draft reporton progress of the implementation of the policy framework to be sent to thePrime Minister.
Over the past years,the SP-RCC has made important contributions to the building and completion ofVietnam’s legal system on climate change. However, in the context that theworld has approved the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Vietnam has becomea middle-income country and planned to implement the deal in 2030, theprogramme should be adjusted to become more suitable to the country.
According to DeputyMinister Thanh, the ministry will make proposals on changes of the programme inits report to the PM.
He also askeddevelopment partners and ministries to continue coordinating and supportingeach other in implementing the programme.-VNA
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