The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) is giving toppriority to afforestation and reforestation projects in line withVietnam's Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC).
TruongDuc, Deputy Head of the Ministry's Department of Meteorology Hydrologyand Climate Change, made this pronouncement at a forum on the sharing ofexperiences in climate change adaptation pilot projects in Quang Nam onSeptember 12.
"The Government had approved a list of 62 priorityprojects for the SP-RCC, with an estimated fund of 20 trillion VND (952million USD). However, the fund just allocated 1 trillion VND (47.6million USD) for 16 projects in coastal and mountainous provinces from2013 to 2014," Tri said.
"Quang Nam and Ben Tre, two provinces inthe central coastal and Mekong River Delta regions, were designated asareas for further expansion of the country's SP-RCC from 2016 to 2020.Some pilot projects which the Government of Denmark sponsored havebenefited thousands of residents in the two provinces," he added.
Herevealed that the MNRE and other ministries had formulated andimplemented more than 200 climate change-related policy actions from2010 to 2013 under the SP-RCC, with 900 million USD in funding from theWorld Bank, Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and FrenchAgency for Development (AfD), as well as from Canada, Australia and theRepublic of Korea.
According to Tri, exactly 16 of 19 pilot projects in the two provinces were completed, thereby benefitting 28,000 residents.
VoNhu Toan, Deputy Head of Quang Nam provincial Climate Change Office,said the province had drafted a climate change response plan on theassumption that 235 areas in 11 districts would become most vulnerable,by 2030, to rising sea levels and temperatures, as well as drought,erosion, storms and floods.
"We replanted 40 hectares of mangroveforests and 12 hectares of casuarinas in the coastal communes of NuiThanh district and constructed sea dykes, embankments, infrastructurefor resettlement and multi-function storm shelters with a total fund of62 billion VND (295,000 USD) from 2010 to 13," Toan said.
"Theprojects have helped in ensuring solid infrastructure and smooth trafficflow, and the buildings and roads are resistant to storms, floods anderosion," he added. "Concrete roads and irrigation channels weredesigned to ensure smooth traffic flow and efficient farm productdelivery. They also serve as docks for fishing vessels and as emergencyevacuation pathways in case of heavy flooding.
"All pilotprojects were built on the basis of a scenario that some districts willbe most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels by 2030. It is estimated that30 percent of total land in these areas will be submerged by the sea,"Toan revealed.
The MNRE has also called on businesses andcommunities to boost the reforestation of mangrove areas, a crucialecological method to curb carbon emission, rising sea levels and erosionfrom 2016 to 2020.-VNA
TruongDuc, Deputy Head of the Ministry's Department of Meteorology Hydrologyand Climate Change, made this pronouncement at a forum on the sharing ofexperiences in climate change adaptation pilot projects in Quang Nam onSeptember 12.
"The Government had approved a list of 62 priorityprojects for the SP-RCC, with an estimated fund of 20 trillion VND (952million USD). However, the fund just allocated 1 trillion VND (47.6million USD) for 16 projects in coastal and mountainous provinces from2013 to 2014," Tri said.
"Quang Nam and Ben Tre, two provinces inthe central coastal and Mekong River Delta regions, were designated asareas for further expansion of the country's SP-RCC from 2016 to 2020.Some pilot projects which the Government of Denmark sponsored havebenefited thousands of residents in the two provinces," he added.
Herevealed that the MNRE and other ministries had formulated andimplemented more than 200 climate change-related policy actions from2010 to 2013 under the SP-RCC, with 900 million USD in funding from theWorld Bank, Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and FrenchAgency for Development (AfD), as well as from Canada, Australia and theRepublic of Korea.
According to Tri, exactly 16 of 19 pilot projects in the two provinces were completed, thereby benefitting 28,000 residents.
VoNhu Toan, Deputy Head of Quang Nam provincial Climate Change Office,said the province had drafted a climate change response plan on theassumption that 235 areas in 11 districts would become most vulnerable,by 2030, to rising sea levels and temperatures, as well as drought,erosion, storms and floods.
"We replanted 40 hectares of mangroveforests and 12 hectares of casuarinas in the coastal communes of NuiThanh district and constructed sea dykes, embankments, infrastructurefor resettlement and multi-function storm shelters with a total fund of62 billion VND (295,000 USD) from 2010 to 13," Toan said.
"Theprojects have helped in ensuring solid infrastructure and smooth trafficflow, and the buildings and roads are resistant to storms, floods anderosion," he added. "Concrete roads and irrigation channels weredesigned to ensure smooth traffic flow and efficient farm productdelivery. They also serve as docks for fishing vessels and as emergencyevacuation pathways in case of heavy flooding.
"All pilotprojects were built on the basis of a scenario that some districts willbe most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels by 2030. It is estimated that30 percent of total land in these areas will be submerged by the sea,"Toan revealed.
The MNRE has also called on businesses andcommunities to boost the reforestation of mangrove areas, a crucialecological method to curb carbon emission, rising sea levels and erosionfrom 2016 to 2020.-VNA
