#Climate Change

Vietnam, on behalf of the Core Group which also includes Bangladesh and the Philippines, will table the 2024 Resolution on Climate Change and Human Rights with the theme of ensuring human rights in the energy transition process at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s 56th session that opened in Geneva on June 18.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the Group of 77 (G77) summit on climate change in Dubai on December 2 (local time), as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change there.

ASEAN should maintain its solidarity and central role in promptly responding to emerging traditional and non-traditional security challenges such as armed conflicts, competition between major powers, natural disasters, epidemics, and climate change.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has suggested that officials and employees of Vietnamese representative missions firmly grasp bilateral and global issues, such as pandemic response, resource depletion, aging populations, and climate change.

The Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam attaches much importance to responding to climate change as well as to protecting environment and fighting environmental crimes.

Alok Kumar Sharma, president for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), expressed his great appreciation for Vietnamese commitments in coping with climate change during a working session with leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Hanoi on February 14.

In the event that sea levels rise by 1 metre, it will engulf 47.29% of the Mekong Delta area, approximately 17.15% of the area of Ho Chi Minh City, and 13.20% of the Red River Delta area, according to the 2020 climate change scenario.

Vietnam wishes to explore opportunities and strengthen cooperation with Belgium’s Antwerp province in potential fields such as seaports, renewable energy, climate change adaptation and education.

Ho Chi Minh City’s master plan aims for the southern metropolis to develop into the country’s largest economic hub for tourism, industrial services, and high-tech agriculture by 2040, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation.

The European Parliament (EP) and Vietnam share interests in a wide range of fields and the EP looks forward to working with Vietnam to ramp up cooperation across multiple fields such as trade and investment, COVID-19 prevention and control, climate change response.

Within the framework of European Climate Diplomacy Week 2019 held by the EU Delegation to Vietnam, Hoi An City People’s Committee, in collaboration with the German Embassy and German Development Cooperation GIZ organized the Youth for Climate Cycling Event in Hoi An.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed competent agencies to promptly create regional coordination institutions and a sustainable development mechanism in the Mekong Delta.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested ministries to prioritise capital in the medium-term public investment plan for 2016-2020 to natural disaster prevention and climate change response in the time ahead.

Superannuation funds and investors representing US$34tn in assets – nearly half of the total under management across the globe – have called on world leaders to bring in carbon pricing and phase out coal power to limit global heating to 1.5C.

Ecosystem-based solutions are vitally important for the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change in the decades to come, speakers said at a seminar held in Can Tho over the weekend.

The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

Vietnam, together with Bangladesh and the Philippines, will deliver a draft solution on women’s rights amidst climate change at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council that opened in Geneva, Switzerland on June 18.

PSNews - Climate change and the development in the Mekong basin are posing great challenges. Upstream hydropower dams have badly affected the river ecosystem and livelihoods of tens of millions of people in Vietnam’s Mekong basin. In fact, lower reaches of the Mekong are facing unprecedented risks.