Australia supports Vietnam’s climate change project
(VOV) -The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT/AusAID) has committed AUD200,205 to a climate change project in Vietnam.
The AUD224,065 project will be implemented over 2014-2015 in Mekong and Red River Delta provinces, as well as those most vulnerable to climate change.
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The project was announced at a workshop in Hanoi on February 20 by the Vietnamese NGOs and Climate Change (VNGO&CC).
Vu Thi Bich Hop, Executive Director of Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) and chief coordinator of VNGO&CC, said approximately 100 civil society organisations that are members of the VNGO&CC network in 23 cities and provinces across Vietnam will join hand to take action against climate change.
About 20 poor and ethnic minority communities will benefit indirectly from the project she said.
VNGO&CC was established in 2008 with the aim of coordinating and complementing the Government's efforts in assisting poor Vietnamese people to cope with climate change.