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ISET’s experts and Binh Dinh delegation share experience of responding to climate change |
The workshop of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has been jointly organized by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) and the Rockefeller Foundation in Bangkok, the Capital of Thailand. Vice director of the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Dinh Van Tien, participated in the workshop. He had an interview with Binh Dinh Newspaper’s reporter.
Could you brief us on the purposes of ACCCRN workshop?
The workshop covers a series of issues relating to climate change, each country’s response and policies, climate change scenarios, national programmes, climate change vulnerability in participating cities.
The ACCCRN aims to catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people by creating robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing risk through active engagement and analysis of various cities.
What could participating cities benefit from the workshop?
Participants were offered time to learn how to plan for the fight against climate change in each city. Also, experts presented skills in proposing strategies for responding to climate change.
ISET’s experts presented many practical issues, such as planning to adapt to climate change, data on adaptation strategies, input for adaptation strategies, and vulnerability by climate change.
Participants learned how to evaluate effects of climate change and the vulnerability and how to prepare for reliable technical information with the participation of vulnerable groups and communities.
How about the “Strengthening capacity for climate change adaptation in Quy Nhon” project?
Three cities of Can Tho, Da Nang, and Quy Nhon were selected to join the project. The project management board has coordinated with ISET, Challenge to Change (CtC), and other bodies to organize some workshops and carry out surveys.
We initially evaluated the risk, adaptation, and vulnerability caused by climate change in Quy Nhon city and adjacent areas.
Basing on the results collected from the evaluation, the data system and information on the community-based risk management will be built.
At the workshop participants also shared experiences with each other, creating favorable conditions for participating cities to implement the project.
Thanks to lessons learned from the workshop, we do believe that the project will be effectively implemented in Quy Nhon city.
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