Thanh Nien News
Published: 13 January, 2009, 15:20:25 (GMT+7)
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Vietnam starts $112 million climate change program
Reported by Mai Vong
Vietnam’s environment agency formally launched its VND 1.96 trillion (US $112.44 million)
program to protect the country from the effects of climate change on Monday 12 January 2009.
Scientists from the US and Vietnam will study the impact of climate change on the Mekong Delta
and other low-lying river regions around the world. Gregory Smith, head of the National Wetlands
Research Center of the US Interior Department, said the aim of the joint study is to gather
large-scale data sets to help model the impact of rising sea levels and worsening cyclonic
storms on river deltas, man-made structures and communities.
Tran Thuc (1st R), head of the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment and Gregory Smith (C), head of the National Wetlands Research Center of the US Interior Department sign documents on cooperation of climate change during a ceremony in Hanoi on November 17, 2008. The US and Vietnam will jointly study how climate change is going to impact the Mekong delta and other low-lying river regions worldwide. Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images
