Staying one step ahead of climate change and not avoiding direct
confrontation with the phenomenon was one of many adaptation strategies
proposed on June 14 at a conference in HCM City.
Experts have warned of difficult times for the upcoming rice crop, from
now to the end of the year, with serious droughts threatening the crops
on the front end and severe flooding looming on the back.
More than 800 representatives from 90 member countries of the
International
Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) gathered in Hanoi on May 25 for its 78
th
annual meeting on irrigation, hydropower and the environment.
Thousands of hectares of rice,
industrial crops and aquaculture are at risk of falling output, and even
lost crops, due to increasing droughts, disease and salt contamination.
Prolonged dry weather has raised forest fire risks to extremely high levels
across the country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development’s Department for Forest Protection.
Cambodia on Feb. 4 broke ground for its
greatest irrigation waterworks in Battambang province in a bid to
increase farming area and crops in one of the country’s main
rice-growing provinces.
The World Bank (WB) on Jan. 5 launched the Vietnam Innovation Day programme with
a mission seeking innovative ideas from local communities to deal with climate
change.
At least 207 people died and hundreds
of thousands of others in southern India were evacuated after
torrential rains and floods swept away their homes over the past five
days.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment on September 9 issued a warning that the increasing
frequency and intensity of El Ninos across the globe is badly affecting
Vietnam’s climate.
The Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment has affirmed that a national programme to cope with climate
change is in the making with forecasts on temperature and sea level
rises in the spotlight.
A seminar on supplying the press with information on climate change, co-organised by the United Nations (UN) and the Vietnamese Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, was held in Hanoi on June 3.
Authorities in south China 's Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region decided on September 3 to add 20 million yuan
(2.94 million USD) to a fund for fighting lingering drought in the
region, raising the total fund so far to 7.9 million USD.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment has completed a scenario which will help ministries,
sectors and localities to devise action plans on climate change.
Climate change has caused serious flooding in urban areas recently, said scientists and experts at a two-day seminar on climate change’s impacts that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on June 24.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
