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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to produce a draft decree guiding the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, participants at a dialogue heard on June 24.
Delegates meet on the sidelines of the dialogue within the framework of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility in the central coastal city of Danang on June 24
The Paris Agreement operates within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; it deals with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance, starting in the year 2020.
The Vietnamese Government has yet to issue a legal document guiding the execution of the Paris Climate agreement, which it signed in 2016.
JICA has finalized the draft decree after consulting with the relevant ministries and agencies. The document will be submitted to the Government for approval and is aimed at creating a legal framework for fully meeting the commitments of the agreement by 2020.
Koji Fukuda, chief technical advisor of a JICA technical assistance project to support the planning and execution of nationally appropriate mitigation actions in a measurement, reporting and verification context (SPI-NAMA), shared the information at a multi-party dialogue for Southeast Asian cities on the Paris Agreement’s compliance mechanism within the framework of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-6) Council in the central coastal city of Danang, held between June 23 and 29.
According to Fukuda, JICA has been supporting the Climate Change Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in executing the Paris Agreement through the SPI-NAMA project.
To date, the project has completed its assessment of low-carbon technology to come up with reduction solutions.
Vietnam’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were equal to the global emissions volume in 1850, he said, adding that the Government aims to reduce the amount by 8% by 2030 compared with the normal development scenario.
This emissions reduction may be increased to 25% if the country receives support from the international community.
“JICA will assist Vietnam in carrying out numerous adaptation activities that will help strengthen its resilience to climate change, enabling it to contribute more toward mitigating greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.
Naoko Ishii, CEO and chairwoman of the GEF, noted the dialogue was the final council meeting of GEF-6 and presented an opportunity for its members to seek ways to transform the world’s major economic systems; help countries protect their natural resources, ecosystems and oceans; and fight climate change.
The GEF gains a competitive edge, thanks to its role as a financial mechanism for various conventions, according to Ishii.
She said that the 54th GEF Council Meeting is taking place between June 24 and 26, and that the event is looking into an updated cofinancing strategy, the GEF partnership, rules for the System for Transparent Allocation of Resources, the 2019 GEF Business Plan and Corporate Budget and the seventh replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-7).
GEF-6 was expected to attract more than 1,500 delegates, including environment ministers and other senior officials from 183 member countries, leaders of United Nations agencies and regional development banks, representatives of political and social establishments and company leaders.
They will share feasible ideas, solutions and actions aimed at global environmental protection, according to the organizer.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is slated to make a keynote speech at the official opening of GEF-6 on June 27.
SGT
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