Illustrative image (Source: The Canadian Press).

Themed “Working together on climate change, oceans and clean energy”, the event will take place from September 19-21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Coast Guard Jonathan Wilkinson and Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi will co-chair the meeting.

Canada is the current G7 Chair in 2018. In addition to Vietnam, the other invited countries include Argentina, Jamaica, Kenya, Marshall island, Nauru, Norway, Seychelles and South Africa.

They are due to discuss ocean health and the response capacity of coastal communities.

VND61 billion allocated to climate change response and green growth

The Prime Minister has agreed to the allocation of VND61 billion, sourced from the State budget estimates for 2018 to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and localities to cope with climate change and promote green growth.

 

Vietnam looks to cooperate with Australia in climate change response: official

Vietnam wishes to cooperate with developed countries in general and Australia in particular regarding climate change response, head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh said on August 16. 

 

Mobilising resources to cope with climate change

Vietnam is one of the countries that will be most severely affected by climate change in the coming decades, especially sea level rises in coastal areas. In order to actively respond to climate change, Vietnam has been trying to create resources to limit the impacts caused by climate change.

 

Source: NDO/VNA