A technical assistance project for the national target programme onclimate change resilience in transport energy has been launched.
Theproject, which is scheduled to end in February next year, is carriedout at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Transport,Thanh Hoa province, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang city.
Theproject aims to help improve capacity in plan making and buildingactions to cope with climate change, build and carry out a campaign toraise public awareness on climate change, and design pilot projects onmitigating greenhouse gas emission.
A workshop to launch theproject was held in a Hanoi on Mar. 5 by the Ministry of NaturalResources and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and theAsian Development Bank (ADB).
Addressing the event, Hoang QuocVuong, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, stressed that proposals onclimate change mitigation and resilience in the energy and transportsectors are related to space planning, including policy components,national-level regulations and components to be implemented at theprovincial and city level.
ADB Country Director Tomoyuki Kimurahighlighted the action plan’s importance in the transport energy fieldin Vietnam, especially plans to develop the national target programme onclimate change resilience in Thanh Hoa, HCM City and Da Nang city.-VNA