Vietnam PM Enacts Nat’l Plan on Climate Change Adaptation in 2021-2030

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently issued a national plan on climate change adaptation for the 2021-2030 period, vision 2050, focusing on the core enhancement of state management. The plan underscored the integration of climate change adaptation into strategies and planning schemes, the investment in adaptive activities, science and technologies, and the improvement of public awareness of this issue. It also defined tasks and solutions to mitigate disaster risks and losses, and enhance the readiness for natural disasters and extreme weather caused by climate change. During its first phase from 2021-2025, the plan will focus on completing mechanisms and policies on climate change adaptation, making legal and technical preparations to promote the integration of climate change into policies/strategies, and running prioritized tasks and solutions. From 2026 to 2030, the improvement of state management will be focused to enhance resilience of economic sectors, community, and ecosystem. Between 2030 and 2050, the plan will concentrate on boosting adaptive capacity of people and infrastructure, and ensuring food, energy, and water security, gender equality, social welfare, public health, and sustainable national development amidst climate change and natural disasters. (Bao Chinh Phu, Bao Chinh Phu, en.Vietnam Plus)