A coastal road in Ca Mau Province subsides due to erosion in March 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Khanh Hung. Vietnam’s southernmost province has come up with the plan for execution in 2020-30 that seeks to prevent natural disasters brought on by climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More than VND18 trillion of the amount will come from official development assistance (ODA) funds. The money will be used to build, upgrade and renovate irrigation systems to prevent salinity, conserve freshwater and combat drought. The program will bring in advanced technologies for shrimp farming, a major industry in the province. Besides, Ca Mau will expand its water supply system and prioritize upgrades to infrastructure and transport systems. It will grow and protect mangrove forests and coastal forests and build embankments to prevent erosion. It will set up a network of sophisticated hydro-meteorological centers to provide warnings of the increasingly extreme weather phenomena. Ca Mau, which has a coastline of 254 kilometers (158 miles), has suffered badly as a result of climate change, losing 10,000 hectares of coastal lands, including forests, to erosion and having economic activities threatened by sea level rise, Vietnam News Agency the quoted the province’s Deputy Chairman Le Van Su as… Read full this story
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