Japan continues helping VN tackle climate change

VGP – The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) yesterday penned a project on forest research to serve activities against climate change.

June 12, 2009 10:40 AM GMT+7

First AR-CDM project is carried out in Việt Nam - Photo: VGP

Through the 18-month-long project, Việt Nam will develop a database on potential forestlands which can be exploited to serve activities within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol.

The project will also help accelerate afforestation/reforestation in line with clean development mechanism (AR-CDM) and encourage the private sector to join in AR projects.

Information and data of forestlands, useful for the reduction of greenhouse gas from forest degradation and deforestation throughout Việt Nam, will be collected.

The project is a follow-up activity under the JICA-sponsored research on capacity increasing in AR-CDM, carried out from December 2006 to March 2009.

According to JICA Việt Nam, a small-scale AR-CDM project was successfully conducted in the northern province of Hòa Bình. Then it was recognized by the United Nations as the first AR-CDM project in Việt Nam and the fourth in the world after those in China, Moldova and India.

By Kim Loan