Gov’t orders MONRE to quickly finalize strategy against climate change
VGP - Deputy PM Hoàng Trung Hải ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) to take prime responsibility of developing and finalizing the Strategies and Action Plans against impacts of the global climate change for Ministries, sectors and some provinces.
May 25, 2010 7:15 AM GMT+7
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Ministries, sectors and localities need to review climate change projects and divide them into domestically-funded, foreign funded, short-term, or long-term categories.
He urged relevant bodies to issue criteria for a climate change project, create related administrative forms and appoint implementers who will work with donors for maximum financial resources in the time to come.
Recently, Việt Nam has received increasing technical and financial support and assistance from the international community in addressing impacts of the global climate change. The total support given to Việt Nam has amounted to US $1 billion so far.
By Hải Minh
