National Target Program for Climate Change: Transport & Energy

Client: ADB through ICEM | Duration: Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 | Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

The project addresses the National Target Program to Respond to Climate Change (NTPRCC), adopted in December 2008, which identifies climate change trends in Viet Nam, broad regional and sectoral vulnerabilities, and sets out legislative, planning and investment priorities in response to climate change. The NTPRCC lays out nine targets for 2009-2015, and constitutes a first important step in directing ministries and provinces to formulate specific sectoral and regional plans of action based on more detailed impact assessments.
Although this assignment is focused on the anthropogenic impacts of urbanization, it is structured to examine the strategy in the context of activities of MoT and MoIT, focusing predominantly on adaptation to climate change, with some attention to mitigation issues.

Key Tasks Achieved

  • Reviewed reports on national urban development, climate change impacts, alternative modelling scenarios, and response strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
  • Worked with team members to understand the relationship between anthropogenic actions (especially urban growth) and climate change, addressing adaptation measures to respond to increasing climate change impacts. Broadly also examined mitigation mechanisms in urban development to reduce impact of anthropogenic activity on climate change.
  • Developed geospatial analysis and thematic interpretations of climate change on urban development, through focus on transport and energy infrastructure in response to selected climate change modelling scenario.
  • Coordinated and developed geospatial database at national level through a participatory process of engaging multiple agencies and institutes: MoNRE (IMHEN), MoT (TDSI), and MoIT (IEE).
  • Identified climate change impact hot-spots based on analysis for 2030/ 2050/ 2100 scenarios, using modelling scenarios accepted by National Government.