Xinhua, Ho Chi Minh City :
If the sea water rises one meter higher by 2100, about 10 percent of Vietnam’s population would be directly impacted by climate change and the country is forecast to lose about 9 percent of its Gross Domestic Products ( GDP) annually, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE).
In the past 10 years (2001-2010), human deaths and missing caused by natural calamities hit over 9,500, and total loss was about 1.5 percent of the country’s annual GDP, local Saigon Economic Times reported Monday, quoting MNRE’s minister Nguyen Minh Quang as saying on Sunday during an interview with the Vietnam Television.
The minister said the main reason of the loss was attributed to impacts of climate change and human’s economic development that led to increasing greenhouse emission, higher temperatures on the land and rising sea water.
Five countries across the world would be mostly impacted by climate change, including Vietnam, said the minister.
According to the ministry’s forecasting scenario on impacts of climate change, by 2100 the annual average temperature in Vietnam would increase 2-3 Celsius degrees more that would make the sea water rising to up to one meter higher. By then, Vietnam’s Mekong river delta would have 39 percent of its area to be inundated in water, while 20 percent of southern HCM City, 10 percent of the northern Red River delta, and 3 percent of the central region would be flooded under water.
Among major measures in response to climate change, Vietnam set goals to plant more mangrove forests, which are said to be effective in response to climate change. More than 242,000 hectares of mangrove forests in Vietnam were destroyed in the past two decades to serve economic development, reported the ministry.
Vietnam recorded a GDP growth of 5.98 percent in 2014, which is expected to hit 6.2 in 2015, according to the local general statistics office.
If the sea water rises one meter higher by 2100, about 10 percent of Vietnam’s population would be directly impacted by climate change and the country is forecast to lose about 9 percent of its Gross Domestic Products ( GDP) annually, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE).
In the past 10 years (2001-2010), human deaths and missing caused by natural calamities hit over 9,500, and total loss was about 1.5 percent of the country’s annual GDP, local Saigon Economic Times reported Monday, quoting MNRE’s minister Nguyen Minh Quang as saying on Sunday during an interview with the Vietnam Television.
The minister said the main reason of the loss was attributed to impacts of climate change and human’s economic development that led to increasing greenhouse emission, higher temperatures on the land and rising sea water.
Five countries across the world would be mostly impacted by climate change, including Vietnam, said the minister.
According to the ministry’s forecasting scenario on impacts of climate change, by 2100 the annual average temperature in Vietnam would increase 2-3 Celsius degrees more that would make the sea water rising to up to one meter higher. By then, Vietnam’s Mekong river delta would have 39 percent of its area to be inundated in water, while 20 percent of southern HCM City, 10 percent of the northern Red River delta, and 3 percent of the central region would be flooded under water.
Among major measures in response to climate change, Vietnam set goals to plant more mangrove forests, which are said to be effective in response to climate change. More than 242,000 hectares of mangrove forests in Vietnam were destroyed in the past two decades to serve economic development, reported the ministry.
Vietnam recorded a GDP growth of 5.98 percent in 2014, which is expected to hit 6.2 in 2015, according to the local general statistics office.
