Experts discussed the impacts of climate change on economic development in Vietnam using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model at an international workshop at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) on September 30.
Climate risk management, covering climate risk insurance, is playing an increasingly important role in preventing and mitigating losses caused by climate change, experts said at a workshop in Hanoi on April 8.
Poor households living along the coastline in Thua Thien-Hue province have been provided with disaster-resilient houses, under a project between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Organisations and individuals with creative ideas that can help Vietnam respond and adapt to the impacts of climate change may win the chance to access aid worth 75,000 USD for each project.
A symposium on developing clean and renewable energy in Ca Mau peninsula in the new context took place in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on November 26.
Vietnamese BIM Group and AC Group, the energy unit of the Philippines’s Ayala Corporation, began construction of a solar power plant in Phuoc Minh commune, Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan province.
The Vietnamese economy urgently needs to find new drivers for growth in the period from 2018-20 to achieve rapid but sustainable development, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said at a conference held by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi on November 15.
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