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Implementation of National Target Program toRespond to Climate Change at local level

MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

Viet Nam National Workshop

Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)

Ha Noi, October 18, 2011

Truong Duc Tri

Deputy Director General

Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Climate Change

MONRE


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Contents

NTPRCC missions

20102011 implementation outcomes

Projected plan for 2012

Actual situations with NTPRCC implementation at local level Suggestions and Recommendations


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NTPRCC Missions

1. Assess the level of climate change, develop climate change and sea level

rise scenarios;

2. Develop and implement the climate change scientific and technological

program;

3. Build organizational, institutional and policy capacity for climate change; 4. Improve awareness and train human resource;

5. Enhance capacity for international cooperation;

6. Develop a standard framework for integrating climate change issues into

the development and implementation of socioeconomic development

projects;

7. Develop and implement action plan to respond to climate change.


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NTPRCC Missions

The Prime Minister has issued the list of National Target

Programs for the period from 2011-2015 in Decision no.

2331/QD-TTg dated Dec 10, 2010;

NTPRCC has 5 major missions:

1. Assess the level of climate change, develop climate change and sea

level rise scenarios;

2. Develop and implement the climate change scientific and technological

program;

3. Build capacity for inter-disciplinary climate change activities; 4. Improve awareness and train human resources;

5. Develop and implement action plan to respond to climate change.


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20102011 Implementation Outcomes

2010

Launch the National Target Program to Respond to Climate

Change (the Program)

The Government has assigned budget to Ministries and localgovernments (Program implementing agencies), mainly to

perform the following tasks:

Assess climate change level; develop climate change and sea level rise

scenarios;

Raise awareness;

Assess impacts; and

Develop action plan for Program implementing agencies.


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1. Climate change level assessment, climate change and sea level rise

scenario development

MONRE has updated and will publish climate change and sea level rise scenarios

for Vietnam.

Key Ministries to implement the Program (MONRE, MARD, Ministry of Industry

and TradeMOIT) have reviewed and adjusted development plans in accordance

with climate change conditions.

2. Develop climate change scientific and technological program

MONRE has collaborated with MOST to select and identify list of prioritized and

urgent areas for research.

Regulations for operation and financial management for the scientific and

technological program are also being developed.


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3. Build capacity for inter-disciplinary activities on climate change

a. Tasks on legal basis:

- MONRE has collaborated with relevant agencies to develop the Central

Committees Resolution and National Assemblys Resolution on Climate

change; - The ministry has also developed and completed the following documents:

(1) National strategy on climate change;

(2) Framework guideline on developing action plans to respond to climate change for

Ministries, sectors, and local governments and agencies;

(3) Map of flash flood areas and pilot flash flood warning system for some areas with high

flash flood risk;

(4) Digital models on elevation of plain and coastal areas;

(5) Climate change and sea level rise monitoring network in Vietnam.


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3.Build capacity for inter-disciplinary activities on climate change

b. Negotiation and mobilization of international funds:

Regarding international negotiation:

Promote Vietnams role among international community in the response to

climate change, contribute to enhance political, diplomatic benefits, and

socioeconomic development,

MONRE has collaborated with Ministries of Diplomacy and other

relevant ministries and sectors to actively participate in rounds of

international negotiation and conferences on climate change.

From COP13 up to now, the Vietnam negotiation mission often includes

senior leaders of the Government.


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3. Build capacity for inter-disciplinary activities on climate change

b. Negotiation and mobilization of international funds:

Regarding international fund mobilization:

The climate change adaptation and mitigation program in Vietnam with aid from the

Danish Government equivalent to 40 million USD;

Support program to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC Program) loan from the

Government of Japan and France at a favorable interest rate (first installment

equivalent to 138 million USD);

Climate change adaptation and water management in the Mekong River Delta

according to Strategic Partnership Agreement between Vietnamese Government and

Netherlands Government on climate change adaptation and water management; United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation

and Forest Degradation, sustainable forest management, forest carbon reserves

preservation and enhancement. Vietnam is currently implementing Phase I of this

Program. Phase IIs funding has been committed by Norway with an aid of about 100

million USD.


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4. Improve awareness and develop human resource

The program has coordinated actively with press agencies and media to communicate

and improve awareness of the community at large on climate change.

Undertake many communication activities for each specific sector and area.

Up to now, the awareness of organization, individuals, enterprises and the entire

society has been remarkably improved.

5. Develop and implement action plan to respond to climate change

In the implementation of major tasks in the starting stage of the Program, so far 6 out

of 11 ministries, including MOIT, Ministry of Transportation, MONRE, MOH,

MOLISA, MARD, have finished their action plans. Other ministries are drafting the

plan and consulting relevant agencies on development and issues. At local levels (especially for coastal areas), 10 have finished their Action Plans to

Respond to Climate change.


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Projected Plan for 2012

Develop climate change scientific and technological program Focus on research areas of:

Scientific basis, assessment of actual situation and level of climate change in Vietnam;

Vulnerability and measure to adapt to climate change

Recycled energy technology;

Integration of climate change issues into development mechanisms and policies andtechnological orientation.

Build capacity for inter-disciplinary activities on climate change

Develop the Central Committees and National Assemblys Resolution on climate

change.

Develop and complete the standard framework for integrating climate change issuesinto the development and implementation of socioeconomic development projects.

Make a map of flash flood areas and pilot flash flood warning system for some areas

with high flash flood risk;

Construct digital models on elevation of plain and coastal areas;

Develop climate change and sea level rise monitoring network in Vietnam.


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Projected Plan for 2012

Improve awareness and develop human resource Communication, education and raising awareness and responsibility of the

society on climate change are identified as an ongoing long-term task that

needs to be further promoted;

Implementation of human resource development program, especially those

with high expertise in climate change, at the same time incorporate climatechange contents into education curriculums of different levels.

Build capacity for inter-disciplinary activities on climate change

This is the strategic task of the Program, therefore, in the coming years, the

Program will reinforce the development of Action plans byprogram

implementing agencies.

Focus with particular emphasis on pilot projects to respond to climate change,

prioritize the no regret' and urgent projects


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Situations with NTPRCC implementation at

local levela. Regarding Action Plan to Respond to Climate change:

So far, some program implementing partners have not yet developed and

issued the Action Plan to Respond to climate change.

Reason: Climate change is new and complicated issue, with limited

information, data and methodology. Therefore, there has not been acomprehensive assessment for each sector and area. In addition, the

awareness of leadership at different levels is still limited and there is a

lack of synchronized participation of levels and sectors.


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local levelb. Regarding the list of prioritized tasks and projects to

respond to climate change:

According to synthesized information, the proposed need of ministries,

sectors and provinces are huge (over 600 projects), with estimated budget

of about 10 billion USD. However, as mentioned above, due to the lack ofa full picture of all potential impacts of climate change, most proposed

projects have not directly addressed the issue of how to effectively

respond to climate change impacts. Most proposals are separate and

unconnected, with no overall orientation.


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local levelc. Regarding awareness:

Communication activities have made a significant increase in awareness,

firstly of leadership and managers at different levels.

However, it takes a whole process to raise awareness effectively. Only

about 5 years ago, there were very few people interested in climate changeissues, but now many people think that climate change is the source of all

unusual developments in the weather, floods and storms.

Communication and education is an ongoing, constant process that needs

innovation, diversification of methods, as well as distinct methods for

each audience group in order to communicate full and appropriateinformation on the potential challenges and opportunities from climate

change.


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Suggestions & Recommendations

Assignment of annual budget estimation to each program implementing

agency is slow, leading to delays and low quality.

The cost norms specified in Circular 07/2010/TTLT-BTNMT-BTC- BKHDT

are not appropriate, not practical, based mainly on cost norms in previous

circulars, thus have not reflected special features of climate change

programs, leading to difficulties in management and implementation.

Database, information (topographic, geomorphologic, economic, social)

need to come from program management agencies as the focal points so that

the implementing agencies can undertake assessment of climate change

impacts on each of their areas or sectors


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Suggestions & Recommendations

On the basis of recommendations from project implementing

agencies as well as the actual implementation process, MONRE

proposes that ministries (including MONRE, Ministry of

Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance) agree on a set of

names, contents, objectives, expected outputs of each task toassign agencies to implement, at the same time provide timely

additional guidelines on the implementation of the tasks in

accordance with Decision 158/2008/QD-TTg.

Documents

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