Rapid economic development, plus climate change, poses big threats to water sources in Vietnam, according to a World Bank (WB) report.

Ho Chi Minh City is making a climate change response plan for 2020 – 2030 with the support of international organisations, focused on mitigation and adaptation measures.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution on climate change and human rights co-authored by Vietnam, the Philippines and Bangladesh, during its 41st session in Geneva, Switzerland on July 11-12.

Northwestern provinces are aware of the possible consequences of climate change and understand that protecting the environment is urgently needed.

Prof Dr Dao Xuan Hoc, chair of the Vietnam Water Resources Association,  believes that ecological reservoirs are a good solution to ease floods, and mitigate landslides and subsidence in Mekong Delta.

Locals in the northwestern area do not know how to ‘live together with floods’ as people in the coastal central areas do. 

A comic contest was launched in Hanoi last week to encourage Vietnamese children’s participation in the fight against natural disasters and climate change.

Upcoming events in Hanoi and HCM City

Women’s rights and climate change were the focus of a discussion within the framework of the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Tran Hong Ha said at a national conference recently that climate change in Mekong Delta "comes sooner and much faster than many scenarios" had predicted.

Individuals, organizations and businesses are spending money, effort and time to clean up the Mekong River.

Climate change is forcing some companies to reduce their impacts and vulnerability in order to anticipate, lead, and promote market and public policy developments around the risk of environment problems in business.

After nearly two years of implementing a government resolution on sustainable and climate resilient development of the Mekong Delta, known as Resolution 120, a number of policies have been revised to enable the region’s comprehensive development.

Nguyen Huu Thien, talks to the newspaper Thanh Niên (Young People) on the eco-system in the Mekong Delta and threats from climate change.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang have announced that there has been serious erosion of the sea dikes in the Kim Quy-Tieu Dua area in the communes of Van Khanh and Van Khanh Tay, An Minh District.

In Quang Binh province, dozens of local reservoirs are running out of water which puts the summer-fall rice crop of 2018-2019 at risk.

The Mekong Delta loses 300 hectares of land each year because of river and coastline erosion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The northwestern region is witnessing severe natural disasters with increasing frequency, large scale and unpredictable intensity.

The risks from tropical typhoons for offshore fishermen and cargo vessels will fall if typhoons can be forecast 3-6 months in advance.v

Vietnam always treasures peace and stability, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh while addressing the 25th International Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday.