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VIET NAM GREEN GENERATION FOR A GREEN GLOBE

PROPOSAL SUMMARY

1. Project Title: ‘Vietnam Green Generation for a Green Globe’

2. Project Site: Vietnam

3. Proponent: Raising Awareness on Environment and Climate Change Program

4. Project Objective: To improve the knowledge on environment and establish a

sustainable life style for Vietnamese youth

5. Cooperating Organizations:

• SMAX

• Live & Learn

• US – Vietnam Trade Council

6. Start-Up Date: December 2008

7. Project Period: 2 years

8. Total Project Cost: 44,561 USD

9. Brief Project Description:

The project’s goal is to educate Vietnamese youth on environment protection and to improve

the contribution of Vietnamese youth on the fight with climate change and environment

pollutions by building a network of voluntary environmental clubs/organizations and other

relevant bodies. The project would play the role of an intermediate proponent improving the

connectivity between those environmental clubs. The establishment of a ‘green network’

would facilitate expanding the activities and the influences of environmental clubs and gather

the resources for future development.

I. RATIONALE

1. Climate Context:

Climate change is, in the opinion of most scientists, inevitable. Indeed, the effects are

probably being felt in many parts of the world, as average temperatures are rising and many

areas are setting annual high temperature records. Vietnam is one of the most vulnerable

countries in the world, threatened by rising sea levels, greater-intensity storms, floods and

droughts and other effects of global warming.

Changes in Temperature and Rainfall

Between 1900 and 2000, annual average temperatures increased by 0.1°C per decade.

Summers are becoming hotter with average summer month temperatures increasing by 0.1°C

to 0.3°C per decade. It is expected that, compared to 1990, temperatures will increase in the

range 1.4-1.5°C by 2050, and the highest temperature increases will be inland. Changes in

rainfall patterns are complex and season and region specific. Monthly rainfall is already

decreasing in most of the country in July and August and increasing in September, October

and November, and rainfall intensity is increasing considerably. According to researches,

compared to 1990, annual total rainfall is expected to increase in the range 2.5 percent to 4.8

percent by 2050. The increase will be largest in the north of Viet Nam and least in the

southern plains. It is expected that rainfall will be concentrated, even more than now, in the

rainy season months, leading to an exacerbation of drought problems in the dry season.

Climate change, then, is set to make precipitation more uneven and variable over time and

space.

Floods and Drought

Even before future climate change is factored in, Viet Nam is at risk from extreme weather

events. In some areas, such as the central provinces and the Mekong River Delta, floods

appear to be increasing in intensity compared with those in the first half of the 20th century,

though whether this simply reflects increased human settlement, cultivation, and

infrastructure development is unclear. Flood damage is expected to be aggravated by an

increase in daily rainfall of 12-19 percent by 2070 in some areas, affecting both flood peak