The German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) andSiemens company will team up in a project to make urban areas in theMekong Delta resilient to climate change.
Representatives fromthe German units had a working session with the Steering Committee forthe Southwestern region and Mekong Delta officials in Can Tho city onAugust 18.
Nguyen Phong Quang, deputy head of the committee’sstanding board, said climate change has wrecked havoc on the MekongDelta, as evidenced by seawater intrusion and more devastating, frequentfloods, storms, and whirlwinds.
As the region needs morefinancial assistance for carrying out measures coping with these globalphenomena, the GIZ and Siemens’s support is appreciated, he added.
GIZexpert Severin Peters said they will pilot the project in one MekongDelta city and multiply the model to other regional localities later.
Theproject, lasting for six to eight months from late 2014 to mid-2015,will assess the selected city’s climate change resilience and implementthe best possible measures to promote its adaptation, he noted.
Financefor the project will be mobilised from GIZ’s potential sponsors such asthe World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency.
Vietnam is one of the five countries mostvulnerable to climate change in the world and its rice hub, the MekongDelta region, is among the three large deltas worldwide worst hit.
Scientistsforecast if the sea level rises by one metre, about 70 percent of landin the Mekong Delta region will be intruded by saltwater, Vietnam willlose two million hectares of farmland, and many littoral localities willbe inundated.-VNA
Representatives fromthe German units had a working session with the Steering Committee forthe Southwestern region and Mekong Delta officials in Can Tho city onAugust 18.
Nguyen Phong Quang, deputy head of the committee’sstanding board, said climate change has wrecked havoc on the MekongDelta, as evidenced by seawater intrusion and more devastating, frequentfloods, storms, and whirlwinds.
As the region needs morefinancial assistance for carrying out measures coping with these globalphenomena, the GIZ and Siemens’s support is appreciated, he added.
GIZexpert Severin Peters said they will pilot the project in one MekongDelta city and multiply the model to other regional localities later.
Theproject, lasting for six to eight months from late 2014 to mid-2015,will assess the selected city’s climate change resilience and implementthe best possible measures to promote its adaptation, he noted.
Financefor the project will be mobilised from GIZ’s potential sponsors such asthe World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency.
Vietnam is one of the five countries mostvulnerable to climate change in the world and its rice hub, the MekongDelta region, is among the three large deltas worldwide worst hit.
Scientistsforecast if the sea level rises by one metre, about 70 percent of landin the Mekong Delta region will be intruded by saltwater, Vietnam willlose two million hectares of farmland, and many littoral localities willbe inundated.-VNA
