Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told a workshop in Hanoi onMarch 4 that the annual budget for climate change had reached trillionsof Vietnamese dong (hundreds of millions of USD).
“ Vietnam has been working hard to materialise internationalcommitments to reducing natural calamities and adjusting climatechange,” said the deputy PM.
The event, officiallythemed as the “Second national forum on natural calamities reductionand climate change adjustment”, was co-sponsored by the UN InternationalStrategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), UN Development Programme(UNDP) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).It targeted agencies at all levels to join hands in research anddialogue as well as to share information and human and financialresources in reducing natural disasters and the impacts of climatechange.
The forum also launched a campaign torespond to UNISDR’s global programme, “Disaster Resilient Cities” andencourage several cities in Vietnam to join the programme.
Vietnam , situated in one of five areas most prone to storms inthe Asia-Pacific, has suffered losses by natural disasters equal to 1.5percent of GDP during the past decade.
Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said climate change hascaused a greater number of natural calamities which have becomeincreasingly complex and unpredictable.
Agricultural production and rural areas are the worst hit by natural disasters, he noted.
In 2010 alone, natural calamities killed and left missing 362 people,destroyed over 6,000 houses and flooded another 470,000 while damagingmore than 300,000 ha of agricultural land.
Material damages caused by natural disasters were estimated at 16 trillion VND (roughly 768 million USD) last year.
UNDP representative Setsuko Yamazaki urged Vietnam to take theinitiative by investing in protective measures for climate change andnatural disaster control as an integral part of the national developmentstrategy.
It is a necessary move, as naturalcalamities would negate Vietnam ’s achievements in development andgrowth, as well as its fruits in achieving the Millennium Goals, saidthe representative from the UN development agency.
She also called on the Vietnamese Government to promote involvement ofthe private sector, social organisations and NGOs in poverty reduction,post-disaster recovery and reconstruction as well as in implementingsocial security.
Australian Ambassador AllasterCox pledged to further cooperate with Vietnam in natural disasterreduction and climate change adjustment./.
“ Vietnam has been working hard to materialise internationalcommitments to reducing natural calamities and adjusting climatechange,” said the deputy PM.
The event, officiallythemed as the “Second national forum on natural calamities reductionand climate change adjustment”, was co-sponsored by the UN InternationalStrategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), UN Development Programme(UNDP) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).It targeted agencies at all levels to join hands in research anddialogue as well as to share information and human and financialresources in reducing natural disasters and the impacts of climatechange.
The forum also launched a campaign torespond to UNISDR’s global programme, “Disaster Resilient Cities” andencourage several cities in Vietnam to join the programme.
Vietnam , situated in one of five areas most prone to storms inthe Asia-Pacific, has suffered losses by natural disasters equal to 1.5percent of GDP during the past decade.
Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said climate change hascaused a greater number of natural calamities which have becomeincreasingly complex and unpredictable.
Agricultural production and rural areas are the worst hit by natural disasters, he noted.
In 2010 alone, natural calamities killed and left missing 362 people,destroyed over 6,000 houses and flooded another 470,000 while damagingmore than 300,000 ha of agricultural land.
Material damages caused by natural disasters were estimated at 16 trillion VND (roughly 768 million USD) last year.
UNDP representative Setsuko Yamazaki urged Vietnam to take theinitiative by investing in protective measures for climate change andnatural disaster control as an integral part of the national developmentstrategy.
It is a necessary move, as naturalcalamities would negate Vietnam ’s achievements in development andgrowth, as well as its fruits in achieving the Millennium Goals, saidthe representative from the UN development agency.
She also called on the Vietnamese Government to promote involvement ofthe private sector, social organisations and NGOs in poverty reduction,post-disaster recovery and reconstruction as well as in implementingsocial security.
Australian Ambassador AllasterCox pledged to further cooperate with Vietnam in natural disasterreduction and climate change adjustment./.
