Conversations on Vietnam Development
Minh Đức – Chủ Nhật, 23/7/2017, 16:47 (GMT+7)
/about/177680720-56a2ad2a3df78cf77278b56e.jpg)
(TBKTSG) – Việc sử dụng nhiên liệu sinh học không những không mang lại những thành công như mong đợi mà còn gây ra những rủi ro tiềm ẩn.
Lợi hay hại?
“Chuyển đổi các nguyên liệu sinh khối sang nhiên liệu sinh học là một quá trình thân thiện với môi trường. Vì vậy, khi sử dụng xăng ethanol, chúng ta sẽ giúp làm giảm CO2 trong khí quyển”.
VietNamNet Bridge – The sustainable development of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta faces many threats, especially the rising sea level, worsening land subsidence and declining sedimentation, Dr Le Xuan Thuyen of the University of Natural Sciences has warned.
 |
| A severe landslide that occurred along a bank of the Tien River in Thanh Binh District in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap last April. |
Speaking at a seminar last Thursday in HCM City titled “Challenges for sustainable development of the Mekong Delta,” Thuyen said: “The delta is formed by sediments and fairly steady sea levels. Now the two elements are no longer present and so the delta is facing an uncertain future.” Tiếp tục đọc “Land subsidence, rising seas threaten Mekong Delta”
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has submitted a plan to the government to launch 24 climate change response projects in the Mekong Delta for 2017-2020, including nine transit and 15 new projects.
The projects focus on building and upgrading sea and river dykes in key areas, constructing salinity control systems and fresh water reservoirs for production, plant and restore coastal mangrove forests and create sustainable livelihoods for the people.
The total cost is estimated at 11 trillion VND (478 million USD), including 3,269 billion VND for transit projects and the remaining for new projects.
Tran Phong, Director General of the Vietnam Environment Administration’s southern chapter, said the total funding for 2017-2020 climate change response projects increase 2.7-fold from the previous period.
The Steering Committee for Southwestern Region reported that coastal and riverside land erosion in the Mekong Delta remained complicated in the first half, especially in Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and Ben Tre provinces.
Kien Giang records 70km of coastal land erosion, 30 km of which faces serious erosion. Meanwhile in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu, the disaster greatly hurts aquaculture.
VNA
Nguồn lợi thủy sản Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long sẽ bị ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng
ĐBSCL sẽ tiếp tục đối mặt với nguy cơ xâm nhập mặn, xói lở, mất nguồn lợi thủy sản nếu dự án thủy điện Pắc-Beng do Trung Quốc đầu tư xây dựng ở Lào hoạt động.
Tại hội thảo Tham vấn dự án (DA) thủy điện Pắc-Beng của Lào trên dòng chính sông Mê Kông ngày 5.5, ông Trần Đức Cường, Phó chánh văn phòng thường trực Ủy ban Sông Mê Kông VN, cho biết DA thủy điện Pắc-Beng thuộc H.Pắc Beng, tỉnh Oudomxay, Lào, cách thủ đô Vientiane hơn 600 km về phía thượng lưu, cách biên giới VN 1.933 km. Tiếp tục đọc “Thủy điện Pắc-Beng (Lào): Nguy cơ lớn cho đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long”
English version: Hot and Violent
Các nhà nghiên cứu đã bắt đầu hiểu được những thiệt hại kinh tế xã hội gây ra bởi biến đổi khí hậu.
22 tháng 12 năm 2015
Không ai biết biến đổi khí hậu sẽ thay đổi cuộc sống của chúng ta như thế nào. Chúng ta không biết chắc nồng độ carbon dioxit trong khí quyển là bao nhiêu thì sẽ làm tăng nhiệt độ, và ảnh hưởng tới lượng mưa ở những khu vực khác nhau trên trái đất. Chúng ta cũng phải tìm hiểu những sự thay đổi này sẽ làm giảm năng suất nông nghiệp, ảnh hưởng sức khỏe con người và sự phát triển kinh tế như thế nào. Ngoài ra một câu hỏi có thể gây nhiều lo lắng hơn: liệu thiệt hại do biến đổi khí hậu, hoặc thậm chí mối đe dọa từ sự biến đổi khí hậu, có dẫn đến một thế giới đầy bạo lực trong tương lai? Tiếp tục đọc “Nóng bức và bạo lực”
A group of the world’s leading thinkers on climate change have issued an urgent call for the world to reach peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, as global leaders prepare for a gathering in Germany next month.
The group, led by former United Nations climate chief and Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres, warns in a piece published in the journal Nature that the planet could face unsafe — and irreversible – levels of temperature increases if greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to fall by 2020. The piece calls on energy policymakers to implement policies to move the world to 30% renewable energy by 2020 and stop approving new coal-fired power plants, among other initiatives.
 |
| Việt Nam plans to develop a low-carbon economy and include climate-change resistance work in its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the Paris climate accords. — Photo kienviet.net |
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam plans to develop a low-carbon economy and include climate-change resistance work in its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the Paris climate accords.
The information was released by Phạm Văn Tấn deputy head of the Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment at a workshop held yesterday in Hà Nội. Tiếp tục đọc “Low-carbon economy in VN’s updated NDC”
 |
| Land erosion hit residential areas in Kênh Đào Đông Hamlet, Đất Mũi Commune in southernmost Cà Mau Province. The province loses about 450 ha of land along the coast each year due to climate change. — VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đạt |
If you are in the US or another country that cannot watch this video clip, then try this Facebook page.
VietNamNet Bridge – The weaker water flow towards the downstream Mekong River has caused drought in The Mekong Delta, affecting the livelihood of millions of people in the area.
The rains in June 2017 helped cool down the land in the Delta. The Central Hydrometeorological Forecast Center said the floods this year may be a little higher than previous years.
This is a great opportunity for locals to store water in the context of big changes in the Mekong water flow due to water exploitation in the upper course by hydropower plants and water diversion projects. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s rice granary endangered by water shortage”
CGIAR: Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research
WLE: CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
Greater Mekong: The Greater Mekong Region
______
https://wle-mekong.cgiar.org/search/
WLE Greater Mekong resources include:
Resource Repository
A searchable repository of resource outputs including papers, posters, videos and presentations. Many from the 12 years (2002-2014) of CPWF. Access here.
State of Knowledge Papers
Highlighted separately, this series presents easy-to-read and comprehensive papers about subjects relevant to Mekong hydropower development. Access here
Maps
The Dams Map and Portal displays all known dams in our four focus river basins. Here you can also find access to our dams database. Access here.
 |
| Part of a protected forest in the southernmost province of Cà Mau risks being swept away as a result of drought, salt water intrusion and sea level rise. — VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu |
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam risks a loss of 7.2 million tonnes of rice yield and 3.2 per cent of its agricultural land by the late 21st century as a result of climate change, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development forecast.
The forecast was delivered yesterday in Hà Nội at a conference on responsive activities to climate change in the agricultural sector in the context of implementing the Paris Climate Accord. Tiếp tục đọc “Climate change forecast to shrink rice yield”
Nguyen Cong Tuan of Dat Mui commune recently drove reporters to the Vam Xoay seaport, about two kilometers away from the central area of the commune.
“The sea here is compared with an ‘evil genius’. Strong big waves can sweep away houses and properties and threaten our lives any time,” he said, pointing to the seaport, where big waves were hitting the shore and roaring. Tiếp tục đọc “Mekong Delta protective forests wiped away by rising waters”
CVD 