17 million Vietnamese are displaced if the sea rises

Mr. Mark Lowcock, official of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), hopes that the upcoming support of the UK Government up to 500 million USD will help Vietnam design policies to deal with gas change problem. post.

Mr. Mark Lowcock is in Hanoi to attend the international roundtable on management towards development results. Yesterday, he gave a presentation on the ' Stern ' report - a new report published by the British Government on climate change.

This report shows that if no action is taken to reduce emissions, the concentration of atmospheric emissions by 2035 could cause global average temperatures to rise above 2 ^O C. term, more than 50% the possibility that the temperature will increase by 5 ^O C, equivalent to the average temperature change from the ice age to the present.

Uncle Nguyen Trong Yen (My Khe village, Tam Thanh commune, Phu Quy island district, Binh Thuan) defeated the ship by Typhoon Durian (December 2006) (Photo: TTD)

Mr. Lowcock said that Vietnam, a developing country during the industrialization period, is in a group of countries vulnerable to environmental problems caused by climate change such as floods, droughts and storms. He cites in 2006 storms made Vietnam more than USD 1.2 billion. Besides, with a long coastline, rising sea level problems can lose 12.2% of Vietnam's land area and threaten the living of about 17 million people.

Present at the presentation, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Khac Hieu also said that the manifestations of climate change are quite obvious in Vietnam. The average temperature in Vietnam increases annually by 0.1 ^O C in a decade, particularly the temperature in summer increases by 0.1 - 0.3 ^O C.

According to Mr. Lowcock, the British government understands the ' dilemma ' of developing countries like Vietnam. On the one hand, Vietnam must strive for high and fast growth to reduce poverty. On the other hand, unsustainable growth leads to environmental disasters that incur generations of offspring.

Mr. Lowcock said that the British Government will grant VN at least $ 500 million in aid in the next five years and a part of the money will help Vietnam adapt to climate change. According to Mr. Nguyen Khac Hieu, one of the priorities in the government's action will be to set up legal frameworks to attract domestic and foreign investment into projects to help Vietnam cope with the problem of change. climate.

CAM HA

China must build " Great Wall " along the sea

If China becomes the world's third-largest economy after Japan and the US in 2008 according to the World Bank forecast, both the world's largest economies in Asia will be severely affected by the weather. change.Currently both countries are planning to deal.

The Japanese Ministry of the Environment said it would need more than $ 64.5 billion to cope with rising sea levels due to the melting of two polar ice sheets.Japan estimates that if the sea level rises by 1 meter, 90% of the country's beaches will be ' swallowed '.

Climate change is also reflected in less and less rainfall.The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture forecasts that rice production will decrease by 10% in the next 50 years and the grain quality is also worse.Rising temperatures will make seafood sources migrate further north but will be a condition for disease outbreaks.

China will have to build a protection dike along the coast, a plan that the former director of energy research of the Renewal Commission - developed the Chinese nation of Chu Dai Dia called ' a new Great Wall '.As expected, China will announce specific plans later this year.

According to expert Alan Dupont of the University of Sydney (Australia), this plan makes China difficult because the policies have just had to reduce the use of gasoline but still ensure economic growth from 8-9% / year.These changes have made China lose about 2% of its potential GDP annually.

MINH HUY (According to Yomiuri, Reuters)