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VietNamNet Bridge – To date, only 10 out of 63 provinces and cities have
completed the drawing up of the action plans to cope with the climate change,
according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment. The top
priority measures mentioned in the plans are to build multi-functional houses
for local residents in the areas often stricken by floods and typhoons, and
build dyke systems to prevent the salinity intrusion.
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Agriculture land area narrowed
The global climate is getting warmer and the sea water level is rising. Experts believe that these things would go more rapidly in the time to come. Meanwhile, there always exists a big gap between the world’s awareness and the action in fighting against the climate change.
Coping with the climate change requires a close cooperation among people, agencies and organizations. This aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent from the warming of the Earth. However, to date, no considerable progress has been made so far.
Scientists have pointed out that the sea water level would badly affect the land that serves people’s lives, especially the agriculture land. In the southern province of Hau Giang, for example, if the sea level water rises by 75 cm, this would affect 850.5 square kilometers out of the existing 382.5 square kilometers. Meanwhile, the figure would rise to 1121 square kilometers if the sea water level rises by one meter.
Since the land area for agriculture production is narrowed, the food output would decrease. Estimates have pointed out that in case the sea water level rises by 75 cm, the loss in food production would reach 61.54 percent, while the figure may be 81.09 percent, if the sea water level rises by one meter.
Therefore, local authorities and farmers have been urged to apply sciences and techniques in agricultural production. Especially, they should think of using and developing the plants, animals and aquatic varieties which can get adapted to the climate change.
Building up policies to cope with climate change
According to Truong Duc Tri, Deputy Head of the Department of Hydrometeorology under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, said that the ministry has build up a national science and technology program on climate change, which serves as the basis for implementing scientific research works and building up policies and action plans to cope with the climate change in Vietnam.
However, Tri said, to date, only 10 out of the 63 provinces have had the action plans to cope with the climate change. The priority measures mentioned in the plans are to build multi-functional houses in the areas often stricken by floods and storms, building dykes to prevent the salinity intrusion, upgrading canals, irrigation systems and pumping stations.
According to Tri, the climate change has become an urgent issue; therefore, it is necessary to change the awareness about the way of dealing with the climate change, to strengthen the education about climate change and the impacts of the climate change.
On October 22, a workshop on sharing information about the global climate change took place in Can Tho City. Le Cong Thanh, Chief Secretariat of the National Program on climate change resilience, emphasized that coping with the climate change is a vital task for Vietnam. The climate change is a big challenge, but it could also serve as the opportunity for Vietnam to take full advantage to renovate technologies, develop clean energy sources friendly to the environment which help improve the competitiveness and the national power
Source: Lao dong
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