UNDP encourages emission reduction in Vietnam
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E-mail Xinhua, May 16, 2012
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) encourages in Hanoi on Tuesday carbon dioxide emission reduction in Vietnam.
The organization in Hanoi released its Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012 themed "A planet for sharing and firmly maintaining human advances amid climate change".
According to the report, as many as 543 Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises in five key industries are receiving technical and financial assistance from an energy preservation project. It helped them reduce carbon dioxide emission by 944,000 tonnes by the end of 2011, through using more modern kilns for producing brick and pottery products.
The people in the Asia-Pacific region, especially poor people, have to face with complicated impacts by climate change, including rainfall, flood and drought, and sea water rising, said Deputy Director of UNDP Vietnam Bakhodir Burkhanov at the press briefing of the report, adding that the people should change their production model
Regional countries should find out better ways to produce power and use power more efficiently. Green production means to use more renewable energy and less carbonic emission technologies, together with reduction of using fossil energy, said the UNDP official.
Providing information about climate change in Vietnam, Professor Dao Xuan Hoc, vice chairman of Vietnam National Committee on Climate Change, said that the Mekong river delta in the southwestern part of Vietnam is defined to be the most vulnerable location in Vietnam to impacts of climate change.
With an area of 3.9 million hectares and a population of about 17.5 million people, the Mekong delta will easily be impacted by long lasting and deep flood, tropical storms, erosion along the sea embankments.
Vietnam has cooperated with many countries in coping with such challenge, including implementing a project with Holland in response to climate change in the Mekong delta, said Prof. Hoc.
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