Saturday, May 29, 2010

Government requested MoNRE to quickly finalize strategy against climate change

Deputy PM Hoàng Trung Hải ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to take prime responsibility of developing and finalizing the Strategies and Action Plans against impacts of the global climate change for Ministries, sectors and some provinces.

The action plans should incorporate projects and programs relating to climate change to make it easy for future capital allocation and mobilization, the Deputy PM said. Ministries, sectors and localities need to review climate change projects and divide them into domestically-funded, foreign funded, short-term, or long-term categories.

He urged relevant bodies to issue criteria for a climate change project, create related administrative forms and appoint implementers who will work with donors for maximum financial resources in the time to come.

Recently, Việt Nam has received increasing technical and financial support and assistance from the international community in addressing impacts of the global climate change. The total support given to Việt Nam has amounted to US $1 billion so far.

ADB, NDF fund Viet Nam’s climate change efforts

With financial support from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), the Asian Development Bank plans to grant technical support worth USD2.5 million to Viet Nam’s National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change, and Da Nang City is one of the localities benefiting from the project.

In two years, the project will help enhance the capacity of Da Nang authorities to develop and take measures to reduce green house gas emissions, seek alterantive energy sources, and minimise risks due to climate change.