Empowered lives. Resilient nations.

Crop production Forestry Aquaculture Water resources

Technology Finance

Policies and institutions Capacity

Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans NAP-Ag

Vietnam

Agriculture contributes 18% to GDP

Agriculture creates nearly 50% of totalemployment

ADAPTATION ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN

Lessons learned on key drivers for adaptation planning

National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTP-RCC)

Climate change mainstreamed into the National Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2011-2020) and Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015)

Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control

National Meteorology, Hydrology Law

Resolution No. 24 on “Pro-actively responding to climate change, enhancing

natural resource management and environmental protection”

Action Plan to response to climate change in agriculture and rural

development

Submission of INDC

National Environment Protection Law

National Adaptation Plan for 2020-2030

National Climate Change Strategy (2011)

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2013

2015

2014

2016

2018

CHALLENGES IN ADAPTATION

1. Bottom up planning of Community-baseddisaster risk management

2. Ecosystem based Adaptation and resiliencehousing

3. Political support and commitment4. Need for more coordination among ministries

and sectors5. Need to identify synergies of adaptation

measures to optimize use of resources

6. Overlapping of planning leads in efficient use ofresource

7. Lack of mechanism to cooperate amongprovinces

8. Weakness in managing and implementingregional plan

9. Adaptation measures are only considered localbenefits

GDP composition

• Increase its resilience to climate change,reduce vulnerability and inequality

• Respond pro-actively to disasters andimprove climate monitoring to minimizethe loss of life and property and ensuresocial security

• Improve weather forecasting, earlywarning systems and communicationsto local communities; and

• Respond to sea level rise and urbaninundation

• Viet Nam is one of the countriesthat will be most severely affected byclimate change, particularly its coastallowlands and deltas.

• The country can experience moreextreme temperature variations, risingsea levels, salinity intrusion, morefrequent and intense weather events,such as storms, floods and droughts,and desertification.

Loss of rice land due to submergence and salt infection.

• Lack of National Adaptation Plan

• Lack of institutions to develop a Monitoring andEvaluation system and its database on climatechange adaptation at national and local level

• Limited legal framework for integrating climatechange issues into national development plans

• Need for more coordination between nationalinstitutions to address multi-sectoral andinterregional issues

• Need for incentives to attract domestic andforeign investment and to mobilise the privatesector to participate in climate change adaptation

• Knowledge gap on climate change and theassessment of adaptation measures

• Limited communication and awareness-raisingon climate change

• Needs for forecasting disasters and earlywarning capacities and scientific research onclimate change and adaptation technology

• Community level climate changeadaptation models need to be summarisedcomprehensively and replicated

• Need to prioritize resources for the implementa-tion of climate change adaptation activities

More forest fires, loss of biodiversity, extinction of some species.

Narrowing of the area for fresh water aquaculture; damages to port facilities, fishing boat anchors and aquaculture ponds.

salinity intrusion, rising sea levels.

Shortage of advanced technologies for hydrological and meteorological monitoring and forecasting

State resources can only meet 30% of the adaptation needs

KEY ADAPTATION OBJECTIVES AND CONCERNS

Key climate change adaptation objectives through 2030

Key climate change vulnerabilities and impacts on the agriculture sector

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON AGRICULTURAL SECTORS

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