Eighty local and foreign experts inglobal-warming adaptation are in Can Tho for a regional symposium thatinvolves government partners, non-government organisations (NGOs), donoragencies and corporate partners.Experts at the three-day eventare discussing innovative climate-change … [Read more...] about Coping with climate change
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Norway funds climate change impact curbs
Norway will provide Vietnam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production. Norway will provide Vietnam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the … [Read more...] about Norway funds climate change impact curbs
City budgets $3.3b for climate change plan
HCM CITY (VNS)— HCM City has earmarked VND70.54 trillion (US$3.3 billion) for 36 projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, which is expected to severely affect the city. Based on assessments of the impacts, HCM City will have action programmes in various phases … [Read more...] about City budgets $3.3b for climate change plan
VN knuckles down on climate-change
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday, Jan 11, chaired the first working session of the National Committee on Climate Change, two days after its official establishment. Dung said response to climate change and sea level rise was a matter of life or death to the nation's … [Read more...] about VN knuckles down on climate-change
Target programme for climate change response and green growth approved
The Prime Minister has approved the National Target Programme for Climate Change Response and Green Growth for the 2016-2020 period.The programme aims to enhance the capacity of the whole country in responding to climate change and simultaneously implement measures to adapt to … [Read more...] about Target programme for climate change response and green growth approved