Climate change and environmental pressures in Vietnam

By Urban AG Report On Jan 11, 2023

Vietnam is often presented as one of the countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change, especially in the low-lying and densely populated Mekong River Delta.

What is the exposure of the country to climate change impacts at horizon 2050 ? Are there other major environmental challenges threatening sustainability? What kind of adaptation and mitigation strategies could be implemented to help drive the environmental and socio-economic dynamics in a sustainable direction? These questions have been investigated within the framework of the GEMMES research project over the past 3 years.

This webinar highlighted the main final results of the project, which are presented in two reports released at COP27 in Egypt.

00:00 General introduction by Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Climate Change Research officer, AFD
02:14 Introduction by Hervé Conan, country director, AFD Vietnam
05:18 Presentations of the National Report, introduction by Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Climate Change Research officer, AFD
06:04 Presentation of part 1 “Statistical downscaling and probabilistic projections for climate risks analysis in Vietnam” by Thanh NGO-DUC
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi
11:22 Presentation of part 2 “Viet Nam’ s green industrial path between carbon and climate exposures” by Guilherme MAGACHO
Senior Economist, AFD
17:23 Presentation of part 3 “An integrated prospective assessment of climate impacts, adaptation strategies and net zero strategy” by Thi Thu Ha NGUYEN, Macroeconomic modeler – PhD student in Economics LASTA, University of Rouen Normandy
21:28 Introduction to the Mekong report: Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Climate Change Research officer, AFD
22:44 Presentation of part 1 “Adaptation strategies in the Delta : are they consistent with current and future changes” by Hoang VO
Post-doctoral researcher at Wageningen University
29:34 Focus 1 “Sand mining and climate adaptation” by Marc GOICHOT
Lead Freshwater WWF Asia Pacific
35:38 Focus 2 “Mangroves against coastal erosion” by Nicolas GRATIOT
Research Director IRD, Deputy Director IGE
41:31 Focus 3 “The role of retention basins against salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta” by Sepehr ESLAMI, senior researcher, DELTARES
46:34 Focus 4 “Reduction of groundwater exploitation against land subsidence” by Quang KHAI HA, Lecturer, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
54:59 Focus 5 “A resilient and low carbon rice farming strategy” by Thuy LE TOAN, Leader of the Biomass group at CESBIO
01:03:07 Focus 7 “Migration as adaptation” by Clara JULLIEN
PhD student in urban studies and geography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
01:07:54 Presentation of part 3 “Integrated dynamics of adaptation strategies in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta” by Quang Chi TRUONG
Researcher, Can Tho University
01:14:42 Q&A Session