December 8, 2009
The UN Conference on Climate Change will last from December 7-18 in Denmark. This is the final chance for countries to reach an agreement on cooperative action to cope with climate change. The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s map of the Mekong Delta if the sea level rises by just 1 meter. The Intergovernmental [...]
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August 28, 2009
If the Mekong Delta build dikes to protect it from the sea rise level, it will face serious pollution caused by wastwater, scientists have warned. Only 30 percent of factories in the Mekong Delta have wastewater treatment systems.LookAtVietnam – Some irrigational scientists have said that if the sea level rises by one metre, an anti-salt [...]
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August 24, 2009
MONRE has issued a set of scenarios for expected climate change events as a first step in ‘mainstreaming’ climate change assumptions into long-range Government planning. This MONRE map shows the impact of a 75 cm rise in average sea levels on the Mekong Delta region. The bright red zones will only be inundated in the event [...]
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August 20, 2009
Cows graze in a dry field in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. More rain will fall and surface air temperatures in Vietnam are predicted to rise by 2.3 degrees Celsius from the average temperature during the 1980-1999 period, according to a government study. Tran Thuc, director of the Ministry of Natural Resources and [...]
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May 30, 2009
The loss of an average 74,000 hectares of farmland per year and the ill-effects of climate change are threatening food security in Vietnam, said speakers at two events in Hanoi and Can Tho Friday. Vietnamâs population is on the rise while rice cultivating areas and output are continually decreasing, officials and experts said at a [...]
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