A stunning 12 million people could be displaced by flooding in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta within half a century, according to new research led by Philip Minderhoud, a geographer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Minderhoud and his colleagues arrived at that surprising conclusion after analyzing ground-based measurements of the Mekong’s topography that the Vietnamese government […]

HANOI, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs to work closely together to work out proper solutions, the regional grouping’s Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi said here on Tuesday. He made the remarks in Hanoi when meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam News Agency reported. Noting that […]

On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the middle of the Philippines, taking more than 6,300 civilian lives and displacing four million residents. With food prices surging, livelihoods ruined, and homes lost, the storm—one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded—pushed more than a million more Filipinos into poverty in an already poor country. CARBON […]

SINGAPORE — Some activists believe that while more Singaporeans are aware of climate change, their level of understanding is still superficial, and that habits are not yet changing enough to make a significant difference. Corporations, government bodies and the wider community are mostly underestimating the seriousness of the issue, and more needs to be done […]

SINGAPORE —  A “50- to 100-year problem” was how Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described the “grave threat” of rising sea levels to Singapore. While a hundred years from now seems far away, Singapore has already started to feel the impact of climate change with hotter weather and heavier rainfall in recent years. Studies have […]

Precautionary measures to deal with severe drought and its impacts may have become routine for Indonesia, but the practice has not yet been made perfect. With climate change continuing to show its ill effects, Indonesia needs extra efforts to mitigate environmental disasters. The wildfires that are now raging in Brazil’s Amazon at a record rate […]

Jakarta (VNA) – Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested, together with Indonesia, establishing a network of Southeast Asian climate change-adapting cities to share experience and resources in dealing with challenges caused by urbanisation and climate change. Nhan, who is also a Politburo member of the Communist Party of […]

NDO – The Vietnam Coalition for Climate Action (VCCA) made its debut at a ceremony held in Hue city on August 21 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Vietnam and the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID). The ceremony was attended by around 100 delegates representing departments, sectors, businesses, universities, and research […]

SINGAPORE — The Government will use a combination of sources to fund the S$100 billion needed over the coming decades to mitigate rising sea levels caused by climate change, said the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in response to TODAY’s queries. During Sunday’s (Aug 18) National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined various climate […]

While Singapore hopes never to go to war, it cannot avoid taking on another threat to the country’s existence: climate change. Sea levels will rise, posing a grave threat to the low-lying island, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. The only question is when. He estimates it will cost $100 billion or more, over […]