The 5.7-million-USD project aims to build institutional capacity to support child-centred and climate-sensitive activities through policy advocacy to access 27,000 children under 18 in central Vietnam and the Mekong Delta, especially Soc Trang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces.
Category: Viet Nam
Experts discuss measures to sustainably develop blue economy
However, the country’s sea-based economy still faces major challenges related to marine environment and resources, climate change, sea level rise and livelihoods of local people,
Absence of seasonal flooding washes away Mekong Delta livelihoods
Today, they are aware that sooner or later, they will have to find other ways to make a living.
Norway to partner with Vietnam to “awaken” offshore wind power potential
The 70-page report provides an overview of the entire supply chain for Vietnam’s offshore wind industry, recommendations on what Vietnam can prioritise to stimulate the strong growth of a local supply chain to create jobs for skilled labourers, and export to offshore wind markets in the region and the world.
Climate change adaptation compromised, Mekong Delta faces manmade disaster
“The Mekong Delta is subject to various drivers of change, of which anthropogenic drivers, namely hydropower dams, sand mining and groundwater extractions, pose the greatest threats in this first half of the century,” Etienne Espagne, a senior economist with the French Development Agency (AFD) who led the new study released last week.
Mekong Delta’s biggest irrigation system near completion
The entire irrigation system, invested by funds raised through government bonds, is expected to irrigate 384,000 hectares of land, of which 350,000 hectares are for agriculture and aquaculture, in Kien Giang, Hau Giang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces.
Results of flood-based livelihood project in Mekong Delta reviewed
It aims to implement farmer demonstrations of low-risk, flood-based livelihoods across about 470 hectares of rice-growing land and retain some 8.5 million cu.m of flood water.
Carbon pricing aids Vietnam’s efforts towards decarbonization
Vietnam’s revised Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) to be effective as of January 1, 2022 legalizes the establishment of a carbon market. The carbon market aims to address multiple goals: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, enhancing Vietnam’s contribution to global climate change goals, and encouraging greener and cleaner technology innovation.
Vietnam seeks investment in economic zone near Kingdom
The Long An Border Gate Economic Zone on the Cambodia-Vietnam border has an area of over 13,080ha and hopes to serve as a bridge between Ho Chi Minh City and 12 provinces in the delta, and a trade hub linking the Greater Mekong Sub-region.