New index for VN climate resilience
Protecting, maintaining and restoring ecosystems, especially water systems, is among the most urgent tasks for strengthening the country’s resilience to climate change, said Dr Trần Văn Giải Phóng, technical specialist at the Institute for Social and Environment Transition. He spoke at a workshop of a project to develop a city climate resilience index for Việt Nam. The project, carried out by the Ministry of Construction’s Urban Development Department in co-operation with ISET and the Asia Foundation, aims at providing localities with an overview of their resilience against natural disasters and climate change, through which they can come up with appropriate solutions to tackle the problems. From surveys and research at five pilot cities in the first phase of the project, namely Lào Cai, Cẩm Phả, Hội An, Gia Nghĩa and Cà Mau, experts find that critical ecosystems have been destroyed or degraded significantly in recent years.
