04 Jul 2016｜Vu Duc Canh (Vietnam)：Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering

Low Carbon News in Vietnam in June 2016

07/06/2016

Can Tho joined 100 resilient cities

The southern city of City has recently been selected to be part of the ‘100 Resilient Cities’ programme (100RC), pioneered by the US-based Rockefeller Foundation. Can Tho City have been selected from over 325 applicants from more than 80 countries worldwide.

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07/06/2016

322 million USD to against to inundation of urban area of Central city of Mekong Delta

Can Tho city has recently launched a project to develop and strengthen adaptation capacity of urban area to inundation with the total investment cost of more than 322 million USD (over 7,300 billion VND). The project aims to prevent inundation of core urban areas of Can Tho, including Ninh Kieu and Binh Thuy districts; strengthen capacity to cope with inundation and impacts caused rapid urbanization; strengthen management capacity of climate change adaptation urban areas with the role of the central city of the Mekong Delta.

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07/06/2016

Quang Binh: 450 billion VND to mitigate climate change impacts

The People’s Committee of Quang Binh province has recently announced the REDD action plan for 2016-2020 period (PRAP Quang Binh) with total cost of 450 billion VND to mitigate climate change impacts.

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09/06/2016

Spatial data infrastructure supports climate change adaptation urban management

The World Bank (WB) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in collaboration with the People’s Committee of Can Tho city held a workshop with its theme “Vision and roadmap to develop spatial database infrastructure (SDC) for Can Tho”.

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