A workshop was held in Ninh Binh province on September 7 to design policies and mechanisms to strengthen regional connectivity in response to disasters and climate change in the Red River Delta.
The safeguard of coastal eco-system and mangrove forest in the Mekong Delta region will be given a push as phase two of the Integrated Coastal Management Programme (ICMP) kicked off on August 28.
As many as 300 trees have been planted in the Can Gio mangrove forest in Ho Chi Minh City as part of a programme to protect the environment of the city and the vicinity.
The PM has approved the continued allocation of State budget from 2016-2020 to a programme to reinforce, protect and upgrade sea dykes from Quang Ninh to Quang Nam.
A community-based group to manage the Con Chim eco-system in southern Tra Vinh province has helped transformed the riverside area of Con Chim River into a green land and improve local incomes.
The first environmental projects under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) will be implemented in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said on August 4.
The Climate Change Adaption in the Mekong Delta (AMD) project in Tra Vinh will finance the multiplication of 28 production models deemed adaptive to climate change from now until end of 2015.
Promoting the central role of the community in climate change adaptation continues to be a key measure to cope with the issue in a prompt, proactive and flexible manner.
A conference to review the project Sustainable Forest Management in the Northwest Watershed Area (Susform-Now), funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), was held in on July 30.
Officials from the Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources and stakeholders met on July 29 to share ideas for the 2016 regulatory framework for the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change.
A photography competition on climate change and its potential impacts
was launched in Ha Long city in the north-eastern province of Quang Ninh
on July 24.
Vietnam will launch a new environment and natural resource monitoring network which is equal to Southeast Asian standards in the coming years to better prevent and control natural disasters.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and UK Ambassador to Vietnam Giles
Lever mentioned joint cooperation in climate change response during
their meeting in Hanoi on July 21.
A regional seminar held in Hanoi on July 20 discussed preparations for
intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) to the new climate
change agreement to be concluded at the 21 st Conference of the Parties
(COP 21) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) in 2015.
Experts working in climate change research have recently forecast
negative impacts of climate change on economic development, the
environment, biodiversity and the health of humankind.
An internationally-funded climate change response project in the Mekong
Delta province Tien Giang has proved effective, providing local
authorities and residents with a fundamental understanding of the issue.
The European Union (EU) Delegation in Vietnam awarded prizes to five
winners of the 2015 climate change competition which took place from
June 18 to 24 on the delegation’s Facebook Page.
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