Climate Change

  • Climate Change in Vietnam

    It is now widely recognized that the climate is changing, which is predicted to have significant impacts on the environment, lives and livelihoods worldwide. Vietnam is one of the countries that will be most severely affected by climate change. Rural people in Vietnam are already feeling the impacts of climate change, and the situation is expected to intensify in the coming years. 

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  • Climate Change - SRD's response

    Climate change is an increasingly pressing issue worldwide, and threatens to have a significant impact on the poor, rural communities that SRD works with. Climate change has been identified as a key issue in SRD's strategic plan, with a comprehensive approach including research and assessment, capacity building, mainstreaming, and advocacy.

     

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  • Community-based disaster risks management

    Hai Duong and Huong Phong are two lagoon communes of Huong Tra district, Thue Thien Hue province, which often suffer from natural disasters and harsh weather. The people here earn their living by growing rice and short-term crops and farming aquaculture products which are heavily vulnerable to the weather, thus farmers are at high risk of unstable incomes. Moreover climate change has been seriously threatening the livelihoods of thousands of people in these two communes.

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  • Sustainable livelihoods to cope with climate change: What do rural communities need?

    Poor people living in rural areas are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because they rely so heavily on natural resources. In order to find out how exactly local people in rural mountainous areas are experiencing the impacts of climate change, what their particular vulnerabilities are, and to work out how best to support them to adapt, SRD conducted needs assessments on sustainable livelihoods in the context of climate change in five northern provinces of Bac Kan, Hoa Binh, Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh and Yen Bai.

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