HomeClimate Change Australia grants Vietnam 1 mln Euro to fight climate change
Australia grants Vietnam 1 mln Euro to fight climate change
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The
Australian Government has been funding a project worth over 1 million Euro to
combat climate change in Vietnam.
Australian Ambassador Alaster
Cox unveiled the aid at a forum on climate change in the Mekong Delta, held in
Can Tho city on Nov. 12-13.
He said the project covers a large range of issues
related to climate change solutions, including effective measures, management
improvement and relevant policy making to integrate the issue into the
socio-economic development strategies and programmes.
Other goals are to help administrations at all
levels and scientific agencies to make accurate evaluations on the risks of
climate change so as to work out appropriate measures to cope with the problem.
Its immediate targets include efforts to stabilise
people’s living conditions in case the sea water levels are rising as well as
to research, mass-produce and cultivate saline water-resistant tree species.
The project also calls for more programmes on
water resources and ecological conservation, better management of risks caused
by floods and draughts and working out measures on rescues, evacuating people
to safer places, protecting locals and providing healthcare for victims of
natural calamities./.
