Vietnam seeks technical cooperation to fight climate change

Director of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE) Nguyen Dinh Tho has said the ISPONRE is seeking international cooperation opportunities regarding rainfall collection and purification technology for the task of fighting climate change in the Mekong Delta.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Director ofthe Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE)Nguyen Dinh Tho has said the ISPONRE is seeking international cooperationopportunities regarding rainfall collection and purification technology for thetask of fighting climate change in the Mekong Delta.

During the 12th Environmental TechnologyExperts’ Group Meeting, heldvirtually by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) onOctober 21, Tho said Vietnam ranked sixth among countries globally hardest hit by climate change and extreme weather phenomena during the 1999-2018period.

As the country’s biggest farm produceand fisheries production hub, the Mekong Delta faces environment and climate changeissues each year like rising sea water level, saltwater intrusion, drought, floods and storms, prolongedand serious tropical tornadoes, he added.

According to him, the Ministry of Natural Resourcesand Environment has embarked on a project to improve resilience, developresettlement and ecological areas via small-scale infrastructure interventionin the Mekong Delta’s coastal areas, focusing on dealing with environment andsocio-economic problems in three communes of Tra Vinh and Bac Lieu provinces.

With four components, the project will providethree water purification and two rainfall collection systems, repair 850m ofdykes and plant over 1,000 sq.m of mangrove forests from 2021 to 2025./.

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