Climate Change

Last chance to save the climate? The climate negotiations at COP 21 and Voices from Vietnam

"Last chance to save the climate - The Climate Negotiation at COP 21 and voices from Vietnam“ title of dialogue on climate change was held by the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) in cooperation with German Feidrich-Ebert Foundation, on the afternoon of September 17th, at the French Cultural Centre L’Espace, Hanoi. This dialogue was hosted by Institut Francaise de Hanoi, French Embassy.

Consultation Workshop on CCAP of MARD

Under the framework of cooperation between CCWG & OCCA, a consultation workshop on Climate Change Action Plan in Agriculture & Rural Development 2016 - 2020, vision 2050 will be organized with detail below:

 

Time: 8:30 - 15:30, October 1st 2015

Venue: Centre for Women and Development, 20 Thuy Khue, Hanoi

Chair: Steering Committee for Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (OCCA), MARD

 

Please contact Mrs. Pham Thi Dung email: [email protected] for your kind confirmation no later than 29th September 2015.

Consultation workshop - Community based climate change initiatives in Vietnam

 

CCWG is documenting around 20 outstanding best practices of community based climate change initiatives (CBCCIs) of CCWG’s members (not only adaptation initiatives, but also welcome mitigation ones or synergy between adaptation & mitigation) in order to target policy makers to demonstrate that the network generates high quality and pertinent input for climate change policy planning and implementation. The synthesis report is expected to be a tool for climate change advocacy which will be launched during COP 21 in Paris.

 

CCWG's consultation workshop on "Reviewing CCA livelihood models" in cooperation with DMHCC

Under the framework of cooperation between Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change with CCWG and VNGO-CC, a Review on climate change adaptation livelihood model was conducted from 2014 to assess a number of CCA livelihood models developed by NGO so far as well as setting a set of criteria for assessment. Up to now, the final report was drafted by the consultants and with a view to receive valuable inputs/ comments to this report, a consultation workshop will be organized with following detail:

 

Time: 8:30 - 16:30 August 25th 2015

Venue: Candle hotel, 287-301 Doi Can, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

 

Consultation workshop on "Reviewing CCA livelihood models"

Under the framework of cooperation between Department for Meteorology, Hydrology & Climate change and CCWG, VNGO&CC, a review on climate change adaptation livelihood model developed by NGO so far was conducted from last year. The final reports has been drafted by the consultant team. In order to get valuable inputs/ comments to this report, a consultation workshop will be organized as following information:

 

Time: 25th August, 2015 (8:30 - 16:30)

Venue: Candle hotel, 287 - 301 Doi Can, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

Chair: DMHCC

 

Please confirm your participation to Ms. NguyenThi Phuong Nhung, email: [email protected]

 

 

Climate Change Working Group meeting

 

This is monthly meeting of Climate Change Working Group (CCWG). CCWG in cooperation with Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance (VSEA) will organize this meeting with below information:

- Time: 14:00 - 17:00 August 6th 2015

- Venue: GreenID office, Suite 707, Sunrise building, Tran Thai Tong str., Cau Giay, Hanoi

- Topic: renewable energy development, energy efficiency and climate change response

The meeting is chaired by GreenID - one of the most active core members of CCWG specialized in climate change mitigation.

Kindly confirm your participation to Mr. Cuong, email: [email protected] for better logistic arrangement.

Please find attached the detail agenda below:

 

CCWG monthly meeting on August 2015

On 6th August, CCWG in cooperation wtih Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance VSEA will organize a monthly meeting with below information:

Time: 14:00 - 17:00 August 6th 2015

Venue: GreenID office, Suite 707, D11 Sunrise Building, Tran Thai Tong str., Cau Giay, Hanoi

The meeting is chaired by GreenID - one of active core member specified in mitigation sector.

Kindly confirm your participation to Mr. Cuong, email: [email protected] for better logistic arrangement.

 

 

CCWG's comments for Vietnam INDC

 

In July, 2015 CCWG has submitted its comments on Vietnam INDC to the INDC Drafting team coordinated by Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change - Ministry of Natural Resource & Environment with a view to contribute CCWG's knowledge and experiences in working with local community. The Joint Principle on Adaptation developed by Southern Voices program was also shared with the drafting team for apply when review the Adaptation component within INDC.

CCWG training workshop on Gender mainstreaming in CCA design

From 1st - 3rd July, 2015 in cooperation with Vietnam Forest & Delta Program, the Climate Change Working Group has successfully organized a training course on gender mainstreaming in climate change adaptation design.

It was such a very interesting training touching one of the hottest topic in climate change - gender mainstreaming in CCA with a huge number of enrollment both from INGO, VNGO (Oxfam, CARE, Red Cross, SRD, MCD, RECOFTC, Live&Learn, CRS, CISDOMA, COHED, etc), and other stakeholders like Government officials (DMC) and donors, UN agencies (Irish Aid, UNWomen, BTC). Particularly, a representative from Climate Action Network South Asia Mrs. Vositha - Regional Facilitator of Southern Voices program also attended and contributed actively during the workshop.

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