(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnamese diplomat has called for comprehensive and long-term strategies to deal with climate change and sea level rise at a United Nations meeting.
 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet of Vietnam co-chairs a UN discussion on sea level rise in New York on September 25 (Local time). Photo: VNA |
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet co-chaired the panel discussion “Adaptation, finance and resilience in relation to sea-level rise” with special envoy of the French President and Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues Olivier Poivre d’Arvor in New York on Wednesday (local time).
The Vietnamese diplomat spotlighted Typhoon Yagi’s devastating impact on Vietnam and the risks of sea-level rise in the Mekong Delta region, stressing that countries need to develop comprehensive and long-term strategies with fundamental solutions such as building suitable infrastructure to protect coastal communities and creative measures in response to emergency situations.
Besides, they should work to raise public awareness on the issue and improve the communities’ response capacity, including developing livelihood transformation strategies, cultivation methods and sustainable farming, he added, given developing countries and small island nations having suffered the brunt of climate change.
He called on countries and relevant parties to continue sharing measures to improve the efficacy of financial mobilisation for sea-level rise and climate change response, stressing they must include the identification of suitable mechanisms as well as the application of advanced technologies to support the specific and practical demand of local communities.