MARD acts to respond to climate change

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has established a Steering Committee for action plans to adapt to climate change. After India, Vietnam is the second most affected country by climate change.

Recently, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat signed the decision No. 3665 / QD-BNN-KHCN on establishing the Steering Committee for the action program to adapt to climate change in the Agriculture sector. Industry and Rural Development.

The mission of the steering committee is to direct the organization to develop and implement the climate change adaptation action program of the Agriculture and Rural Development sector.

"The Steering Committee ." is led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Xuan Hoc. The Steering Committee consists of 14 members who are the leading officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Institute of Water Resources Research, the Institute of Planning, the Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

Chinese farmers take water from the lake near dryness because of drought.(Photo: Reuters)

Talking to VietNamNet reporter, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Xuan Hoc said: "According to the assessment of scientists in the world, climate change has occurred and has been confirmed. In which Vietnam is The affected country is second only to India, so we need to be prepared to reduce impacts and adaptation.

Measures to reduce impacts are to increase watershed and coastal forest planting, using clean technologies to avoid gas emissions.

Climate change affects the entire agriculture and rural development sector. Rural areas in Vietnam have two regions: the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta. But the Red River Delta also has a system of dykes, the southern plain is a low land. According to the World Bank scenario, climate change will make Vietnam lose half of its cultivated area and 22 million people will lose their homes.

Affecting farmland is affecting food security, people's lives and other construction systems. In addition, the two cities that will be most affected by climate change are TP. HCM and TP. Hai Phong.

At the recent UNDP climate change meeting, Mr. Nguyen Khac Hieu, Vietnam's Deputy Director of the Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol, said: "The livelihood of tens of millions Vietnamese people are threatened with the effects of climate change, this issue and its consequences are making the lives of the poor and the near poor in Vietnam in mountainous, coastal and delta regions. threatened ".

According to the latest UN report, the cause of 90% human-induced climate change, 10% is natural.

Climate change is caused by a high concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing the Earth to warm up, the temperature of the Earth's surface getting warmer. Global warming temperatures create changes to current weather problems.

Currently this issue is being discussed at the United Nations climate change conference in Nusa Dua, Bali, attended by about 10,000 representatives of managers and scientists around the world.

Previously, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also issued Decision No. 2708 / QD-BNN-KHCN to establish "Program development board" to study the impacts of climate change on Agriculture and Rural Development and adaptive solutions of Agriculture and Rural Development sector due to climate change ".

The task of the Construction Board is to develop and submit to the Ministry a detailed outline of adaptive solutions of the agricultural sector due to sea level rise.

Ng. Huyen