Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the National Committee on
Climate Change to promptly complete a national action plan on climate
change, while chairing the committee’s first session in Hanoi on
Jan. 11.
PM Dung stressed that Vietnam is one of the
countries seriously affected by climate change, especially rising sea
levels. Therefore, he requested drastic actions and effective solutions
to ensure the country’s sustainable development, since coping with
climate change is an urgent national issue.
The PM also asked
the Ministry of Planning and Investment to complete the Green Growth
Strategy Framework for 2011-2020, with a vision to 2050, and other
ministries and branches to boost international cooperation and call for
foreign assistance for the implementation of climate change projects.
On
the basis of climate change impact assessments and short, medium and
long-term measures aimed at coping with climate change implemented by
ministries and branches over the past two years, the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment has drafted a national action plan on climate
change.
The draft plan specified key tasks in the 2012-2020
period, focusing on climate change adaptation, actively coping with
natural disasters and rising sea levels, ensuring food and water
security, preventing floods in major cities and strengthening river and
sea dykes.
The action plan will pay attention to lessening greenhouse effects and utilising all resources to cope with climate change.
The draft action plan will be submitted to the Prime Minister for approval in the first quarter of 2012.
By the end of 2011, 15 out of 63 provinces and centrally governed cities had issued their own climate change action plans./.
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