Perfecting Institutional Frameworks, Unleashing Potentials and Resources, and Effectively Adapting to Climate Change
The National Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the 2021–2030 Period, with a Vision to 2050, sets the objective of perfecting institutional frameworks and mobilizing potentials and resources to effectively adapt to climate change, while promoting the integration of climate adaptation into strategies and spatial planning.
Mitigating Risks and Damage from Disasters and Extreme Weather
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha recently signed Decision No. 1422/QD-TTg on November 19, 2024, issuing the updated National Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the 2021–2030 Period, with a Vision to 2050.
The Plan sets specific targets to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of natural, economic, and social systems; ensure sustainable livelihoods, elevate awareness and capacity for proactive adjustment to changing climate conditions.
At the same time, it aims to reduce disaster risks, minimize damage caused by disasters and increasing extreme weather events, and contribute to mitigating loss and damage from climate change. Furthermore, it focuses on perfecting institutional frameworks, unleashing potentials and resources for effective adaptation, and fostering the integration of climate adaptation into broader strategies and planning frameworks.
Driving Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
To achieve these targets, the Plan outlines key task packages and solutions, including:
- Boosting Resilience and Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods:Investing in adaptation activities to ensure efficient resource utilization and prevent resource degradation; developing climate-smart agriculture; protecting and expanding forests and natural ecosystems; upgrading infrastructure systems; strengthening healthcare services; and guaranteeing social security and gender equality.
- Reducing Disaster Risks, Loss, and Damage:Implementing solutions to enhance forecasting and early-warning capacities for disasters and extreme weather events; improving climate risk assessment and management; executing disaster risk reduction measures to minimize damage from short-, medium-, and long-term impacts and maintaining readiness to respond to intensifying disasters and extreme weather.
- Completing Institutional Frameworks and Mobilizing Resources:Strengthening state management on climate change; completing policy and legal frameworks; incorporating adaptation into socio-economic planning; promoting co-benefit adaptation initiatives; and boosting public awareness and community participation through communication, training, scientific research, technology development, financial mobilization, investment, and international cooperation.
Key Phases of Implementation
The Plan outlines two main implementation phases:
- Through 2030:Focus on building and perfecting institutional, policy, and legal frameworks on climate adaptation; integrating climate response content into strategies and plans; scaling up climate-smart intercropping farming models; adjusting cropping calendars and developing climate- and salinity-resilient crop varieties, livestock breeds, and aquaculture models.
- Post-2030 to 2050:Continuing to build up the adaptive capacity of human, technical and natural systems to protect and enhance quality of life; guarantee food, energy, water security, alongside gender equality, social welfare, public health, natural resource protection and drive national sustainable development and climate resilience.
Funding for the Plan will be allocated from the state budget according to current decentralization regulations under laws on state budget, public investment, and other legally mobilized sources.
Periodic 5-Year Reviews
Regarding implementation:
- Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE):Takes the lead in coordinating with relevant ministries, agencies, and provincial/municipal People’s Committees to monitor and guide the Plan’s execution, conducting periodic reviews every five years.
- Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI):Coordinates the review and synthesis of investment projects into medium-term public investment plans based on proposals from central and local authorities.
- Ministry of Finance (MOF):Coordinates with MONRE and central agencies to balance annual operational funds from the central budget.
- Ministries, Ministerial-level Agencies, and Localities:Proactively allocate resources and execute designated tasks to ensure progress and quality.
