A meeting on the Post-2015 Support Programme to Respond to Climate
Change in Vietnam (SP-RCC), co-chaired by Deputy Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment (MONRE) Tran Hong Ha and Deputy Resident
Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Suzuki Tadashi, was held in Hanoi on November 6.
Speaking
at the meeting, Deputy Minister Ha said SP-RCC had shown a number of
first successes, especially increasing the public’s awareness of climate
change.
In order to boost the achieved results and overcome
the existing challenges, MONRE pledged to coordinate with relevant
agencies to establish a group of experts that brings together the donors
and project stakeholders to work especially on finance mechanisms, Ha
added.
As recommended by the Coordination Board, Post-2015
SP-RCC will be implemented in four phases, scheduled to start in
November 2014.
The first phase includes ensuring suitable
financing options and completing the detailed outlines for the
programme. The second phase will focus on the policy framework and
prioritising climate change, which will be followed by the completion of
the Programme Document and its submission to the authorities. In the
fourth phase, the document will officially be adopted.
The
participants discussed what the programme should look like from 2015
onwards, what the roles of relevant ministries and donors should be, and
what the policy framework in 2016 would entail. They also planned the
working group’s next meeting.-VNA