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Climate change adaptation project benefits the poor
Climate change adaptation project benefits the poor
29/6/20
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The information was revealed by the Coordination Board of the “Adaptation in the Mekong Delta” (AMD) project in Tra Vinh at a meeting on June 18 to review the CCA fund in the locality.
According to Huynh Nghia Tho, Director of the Coordination Board of the AMD project in Tra Vinh, the project, which is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has been implemented in the locality during 2014-2020.
It aims to help 15,000 poor and near-poor families in 30 communes better their capacity in adapting to climate change and improve livelihoods.
The project’s total budget is 522 billion VND (22.4 million USD), including 233.5 billion VND in IFAD loans, 126.5 billion VND in IFAD non-refundable aid, 79.5 billion VND (3.49 million USD) from the Vietnamese Government, and the remainder from beneficiaries.
The CCA fund is one of four investment sources for the project. It brings in practical effectiveness through directly supporting poor and near-poor households, business households, and cooperative groups, with priority given to households of the Khmer people and women.
The fund helps share risks and encourages farmers to apply appropriate production and service models to create sustainable incomes in the context of climate change.
From 2014 to 2019, the CCA funded 886 business and production plans, with over 7,400 beneficiaries./.
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Climate change is one of biggest challenges to the human beings
Climate change can lead to serious impacts on production, life and environment on a global scale
Climate change have been and will continue leading to comprehensive and deep changes in global development and security, especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade.
the global mean temperature and the sea level have sharply increased for the past 100 years, especially in recent 25 years.
In Viet Nam, over 50 years, the mean temperature has increased by 0.5-0.70C, and the sea level has risen by 20 cm.
El Nino and La Nina cause more and more impacts.
Climate change has really made natural disasters, especially storms, floods and droughts, increasingly violent.
Viet Nam is considered as one of the countries most affected by climate change, its Mekong Delta is one of the world’s three most vulnerable deltas
about 10-12% of Viet Nam’s population are directly impacted and the country will lose around 10% of GDP
Climate change impacts on Viet Nam are serious threats to the cause of poverty reduction, the realization of millennium goals and the country’s sustainable development.
Climate change seriously threatens food security and agricultural development: agricultural lands are narrowed, especially a significant area of low-lying coastal lands, the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta is flooded in salt water due to the sea level rising
The community’s awareness of climate change is still very limited and one-sided, mainly centering on negative impacts but not on matching life styles, models of production and consumption with orientations of low-carbon and green growth.
At present, a general model of development adopted by developing countries is to exploit natural resources, make use of cheap labor, and cause environment pollution
When Viet Nam has become a middle-income country, international aids for its development will become fewer and its international cooperation will be turned into win-win modes.
Fully aware of serious impacts of climate change on the country’s sustainable development, the Vietnamese Government has joined and approved the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, at the same time directing its agencies to complete the system of legal documents as the legal foundation for preventing and mitigating natural disasters and coping with climate change.
In December 2008, the National Goal Program on Climate Change was approved. This was one of important efforts of the Government, with supports from international donors, in responding to climate change in Viet Nam
Some initial achievements in coping with climate change in Viet Nam have been recognized by the international community.
To fruitfully deal with climate change and boost sustainable development, a national strategy on climate change with century-long visions, as the foundation for strategies, plans and programs, is very necessary for Viet Nam in the current situation.
As one of the worst affected countries, Viet Nam considers the response to climate change a vital issue
Viet Nam has taken great efforts in its policies and measures to improve public awareness and capacity of responding to climate change while promoting economic development in order to raise the country’s economic competitiveness and national status on the international arena.
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