(VOVworld) – The World Bank on Saturday approved a credit worth 90 million USD to help Vietnam improve its climate change and green growth agenda, in line with the World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan.

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According to the World Bank press release, this is the first in a series of three credits that will support climate change and green growth policy actions under the Vietnamese government’s Support Program to Respond to Climate Change, led by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.  The credit will fund the implementation of policies to improve integrated coastal zone planning and management, public investments related to climate change and green growth, protection of water resources and greater water use efficiency, as well as coastal forest development. It also supports policies in transportation and industrial production that will improve air quality, and in energy efficiency and renewable that will mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.