Desktop Study on - Regional Climate Change Adaptation ...

Assessment of Capacity Gaps and Needs of South East Asia Countries
in Addressing Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability and Climate Change
sustainable development and integration, with clear
focuses for short and long-term impacts (projects
must be immediately implemented), climate change
issues and the response to it is the responsibility of
all the stakeholders (politics, society, communities,
etc.) and must be integrated into all strategies and
planning at all sectors and levels. Finally, according
to the principle of “common but differentiated
responsibility” Viet Nam is willing to receive funding
and technology transfer from developed countries
and international organizations.
The general objective as described in the NTP is to
“assess climate change’s impacts on sectors/areas
and regions in specific periods and develop feasible
action plan to effectively respond to climate change
in each short-term/long-term periods” all that to
“ensure sustainable development […], take over
opportunities to develop towards a low-carbon
economy, and joint international community’s effort
to mitigate climate change impacts and protect
global climatic system” (MoNRE, 2008a).
As specific objectives the program defines eight
which can be summarized as follows: identify and
asses climate change impacts on every sector;
identify suitable measures; promote technological
and scientific activities related with climate change;
improve organizational structure, institutional
capacity and implement appropriate policies on
climate change; strength international relationships
to get support and to joint efforts to protect global
climatic system; incorporate NTP to social-economic
development strategies; and finally to develop an
action plan of all ministries and sectors, and to
implement pilot projects.
The approaches defined include a broad range of
stakeholders group focusing on local communities
considering adaptation needs and using a twoway
discussion and feedback, a multidiscipline and
succession approach, based on references to national
strategies, and finally base on existing organizations
(domestic resources and international support).
Scope
Temporal scope:
Phase I (2009-2010): Start-up.
Phase II (2011-2015): Implementation.
Phase III (post 2015): Development.
Spatial scope: the whole country.
Main activities
Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in Viet
Nam: assess variability and impacts of climate
change on different fields, sectors and regions
and develop climate change scenarios, and sea
level rise scenarios.
Identify measures to respond to climate change
based on the result of the previous activity.
Develop a scientific-technological program on
climate change to provide scientific basis for the
development of policies, institutions and action
plans, to collaborate with the international
goals, to use energy effectively and develop
clean technologies, and to strengthen ministries
and sectors capacity to respond to climate
change.
Strengthen the Capacity in the Organization,
Institution and Policy on Climate Change
focused on legal normative documents,
legal basis to implement the activities,
mechanisms to encourage coordination of
NTP implementation in the whole country and
sectors, and improvement of efficiency in the
management’s organization structure relating
to climate change from central to local levels.
Awareness Raising and Human Resources
Development: the scope of this activity is to
strength communication and coordination
among ministries, sectors, decisionmakers,
community and enterprises in the
implementation of activities and to raise the
awareness and responsibilities among society
in terms of climate change.
Enhancement of International Cooperation for
support from the international community and
to participate in the global efforts on climate
change.
Mainstreaming NTP in Strategies, Plans, Socioeconomic
Development Planning and other
Sectoral/Local Development Plans.
Develop Action Plans to respond to climate
change by relevant ministries, sectors,
and localities that should take initiative in
developing their own action plans to respond
to climate change based in previous assessment
and developed climate change scenarios. All
ministries, provinces and cities will prepare
in 2010 a 5 years plan for the period 2011-
2015, raising the key issue of their capacity
to integrate adaptation into their planning.
Actions plans must consider all key sectors as
well as particular conditions of the regions of
the country.
Water resources: Water is being used as a key policy
factor, the following activities must be included
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