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Vietnam, despite sharing a 1,200-km border with China, has stood out among those success stories, having recorded only 1,414 COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths.
The EU and the French Development Agency have signed an agreement with Vietnam to help five of its north-central towns reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards.
International climate scientists plan to conduct a study on central Vietnam’s storm-triggered rainfall to determine the role of climate change in extreme weather events.
Deforestation and construction were responsible for multiple landslides in central Vietnam last month, according to an environment official.
People living in the Mekong Delta are installing tanks to store water for the dreaded dry season, and authorities are building artificial lakes.
Inadequate and inaccurate weather forecasts in Viet Nam resulted in heavy death tolls after flashfloods and landslides hit the province of Hoa Binh on Thursday. Vietnamese officials say the issue is rooted in human interventions such as deforestation, while experts claim more efforts should be made in mapping out risk areas and monitoring geological changes.
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