In order to help Vietnam respond and adapt to
climate change, Japan will give Vietnam a preferential loan of 450 million USD,
Denmark pledged to support with 53 million USD, and the World Bank and UNDP are
also committed to help Vietnam financially.
Back from the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment, Pham Khoi Nguyen, said the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung and high-level representatives from the Government of Vietnam have secured
a number of important contributions to help the country combat climate change.
Resulting from several bilateral and multilateral meetings, Vietnam ensured
a number of encouraging commitments from various donors. Denmark will support Vietnam
with 53 million USD, UNDP with 8 million, and Japan
will give Vietnam
a preferential loan of 450 millions USD. The World Bank will also support Vietnam
financially.
Above that, The Netherlands will assist Vietnam
in the consolidation of the sea dykes; Denmark
will help with the medical waste treatment system in Hanoi
and Ho Chi Minh city and the United States will support Vietnam with
the upgrade of meteorological monitoring and surveying, and how to deal with
high tides in the southern provinces.
Mr Nguyen also stressed that, on the side of Vietnam, as one of the most
affected countries by sea level rise, we should continue to work on the
implementation of the national target program to respond to climate change
(from December 2008).
Vietnam
has set the objective of 3-5 billion USD to be needed from now till 2015, to
respond to climate change.
