Mekong Delta on its way to achieve water, food, and energy sustainability for all

Enter your text here ... March 29, 2022, following author Thanh Dat from Vietnam Investment Review. On February 28, the Vietnamese government approved the Mekong Delta Integrated Regional Masterplan, the first one of its kind. Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Elsbeth Akkerman and Paul Bergsma, ...

Agricultural Sector in Vietnam

Vietnam is a country that thrives on agriculture with a GDP contribution of 14.85% in Agriculture in 2020. The agricultural sector in Vietnam includes crop production, livestock, fisheries, and forestry. Vietnam's main Agricultural products are rice, pepper, tea, coffee beans, cotton, peanuts, sugar...

Integrated Water Resource Management of the Mekong, the Transboundary River

United Nations Water (UN Water) defines transboundary waters as the aquifers, and lake and river basins shared by two or more countries. Nearly half of the Earth's land surface is occupied by 263 transboundary lakes which provide 60 percent of global freshwater flow on which 2 billion people worldwi...

Climate Change Impacts on Water-Related Sectors

Climate Change can be defined as any variations in climate patterns that last for a long period of time: decades or more. The prime cause of climate change is Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission, typically Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4), mainly caused by burning fossil fuels for energy use. Now, C...

Vietnamese Youths in the Sector of Climate Action

Youths are active, creative, brave, enthusiastic, energetic, and fresh with new ideas. Youths of today are taking part in climate change action for their own future. The same goes for Vietnamese Youths. Vietnam ranked sixth among countries globally hardest hit by climate change and extreme weather p...

What is the Vietnamese Government doing for Climate Change Adaptation?

According to the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), Vietnam ranked sixth among countries globally hardest hit by climate change and extreme weather phenomena during 1999 – 2018, for almost 20 years. In 2020, unprecedented levels of loss and damage to human lives and infrastructu...

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