On July 2^nd, the Department of Climate Change, Vietnam NGOs Network, and Climate Change, and the working group of NGOs on climate change organized the consultation workshop, “National Adaptation Plan period 2021-2030, vision to 2050”.

In the opening speech, Mr. Nguyen Tuan Quang, the Deputy Director of the Climate Change Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, said, “To implement the assigned tasks, the Department of Climate Change has urgently implemented the development of the National Plan on Adaptation (NAP) from 2021 to 2030, with a vision to 2050. Up to now, the drafting group of the department has drafted the outline of the Plan, which includes: identifying key sectors and areas affected by climate change and identifying the impacts, adaptation goals, and groups of priority and urgent solutions that need to be addressed for each industry and sector.”

   Mr. Nguyen Tuan Quang, Deputy Director of the Climate Change Department, delivered the opening speech

In addition, the Department highly appreciates the support of the Center for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD), the Vietnam NGO and Climate Change Network (VNGO & CC), Change Working Group (CCWG), and CARE in response to climate change. At the same time, there have also been thousands of initiatives and actions to adapt to climate change. Disaster risk reduction in many fields and many different localities in the country has also been actively supported by CSOs to create significant effects in increasing awareness and enhancing the adaptive capacity of communities and local authorities.

In the workshop, Mrs. Vu Thi Bich Hop, Chairwoman of the VNGO & CC Network, said, “Despite facing many difficulties and challenges, over the past 2 decades, CSOs have not stopped their efforts to accompany communities and the government in solving social, economic, and environmental issues in general, and responding to climate change in particular. A popular approach used by I-NGOs / CSOs in Vietnam to overcome these difficulties and challenges is to actively cooperate to gather and strengthen expertise and resources. `

                                                                                 Mrs. Vu Thi Bich Hop, Chairwoman of VNGO & CC Network.

Presenting results of the supporting activities to cope with change response, Mr. Vu The Thuong, representative of VNGO & CC networks, emphasized the overall success of climate change adaptation activities, primarily to mainstream and evaluate the effectiveness of project programs in climate change and local socio-economic development programs. In addition, to reinforce the evidence of cost-effective, resource-adaptive modeling strategies that are relevant to the local context and have the potential to replicate and provide an understanding of policies. Strengthening the capacity of local officials to participate in project management, especially in finance and communication, is also important. Finally, raising the awareness of local stakeholders on climate change adaptation, focusing on climate change adaptation criteria, is another important activity.

                                                                           Mr. Vu The Thuong - representative of VNGO & CC networks

Thus, the network of social organizations on climate change (VNGO-CC and CCWG) is really an extension arm, helping state management agencies and local communities to connect more effectively, from building policy institutions to effectively implementing practical activities, making an important contribution to strengthening awareness and capacity to adapt to climate change, associating with sustainable livelihood development and contributing to the implementation of sustainable development objectives that the UN has set, and that Vietnam has committed to implementing.

                                                                                    The panorama of the workshop