Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 13 Climate action

Hanoi sets up weather warning system

The Institute of Geophysics at the Ministry of Science and Technology has successfully built a modern warning and monitoring system to collect input data for forecasting heavy rain and flooding in Hanoi. The modern monitoring system includes two X-band radars, eight stations for measuring electric fields, ...

Le Diem

Workshop discusses impacts of climate change on economic development

Experts discussed the impacts of climate change on economic development in Vietnam using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model at an international workshop at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) on September 30.CGE is an economic model that uses actual economic data to estimate how an ...

Volunteering day calls for youth’s actions against climate change

The Global Volunteering Day 2019 took place in Hanoi on September 29, calling on the young to join hands in dealing with climate change. The annual event was organised by the Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV) and the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS), with the support of ...

Mekong Delta agriculture adapts to climate change

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field. To develop the ...

Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition launched

The Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET) was officially launched in Hanoi on September 19. Established in late 2018, the VIET works as an independent organisation studying activities related to the transition of the national energy system. Its main activity is hosting exchanges between scientists and policymakers in energy ...

Việt Nam should be proactive in coping with natural disasters

As a country highly exposed to droughts, floods, and landslides, Việt Nam needs more active prevention instead of just a passive response. That was the message from a workshop held in Hà Nội yesterday Entitled “Natural Disaster Management for Sustainable Development”.According to participants, the establishment ...

Mekong countries share experience in agricultural extension

The 5th meeting of the Mekong Extension Learning Alliance (MELA) opened on September 11 in the central city of Da Nang with the participation of 60 delegates from five member countries Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.At the meeting, representatives from MELA member countries presented ...

Mekong Delta closer to sea than previously thought: study

A group of scientists from Dutch Utrecht University discovered recently that the Mekong Delta has an “extremely low mean elevation” of around 0.8 meters above sea level. That is dramatically lower than the 2.6 meters assumed earlier from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Missions data.At a conference held ...

Minh Nga

Hanoi to host Control - Automation Conference & Exhibition

The fifth Vietnam International Conference and Exhibition on Control and Automation (VCCA 2019) will take place from September 4 to 7 at the Friendship Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi.With the theme “Automation in the Industrial Revolution 4.0”, the event will include ...

Le Diem

Workshop discusses climate change in Vietnam, Taiwan

An international workshop, titled ‘Climate Change and Agriculture: Status, Impact, Adaptation, Insurance in Vietnam and Taiwan’ has been held in Hanoi. The workshop announced an important product of the project – an English monograph titled “Climate Change and Agriculture: Status, Impact, Adaptation, Insurance in the Mekong ...

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