Germany funds climate change project in VN, Laos

(KPL) The German Natural Resources and Environment Ministry and the German Development Bank (KfW) will provide 7 million USD for the implementation of a project on climate change in four provinces of Vietnam and Laos.

Of the sum, the German Natural Resources and Environment Ministry contributed 6 million USD to the project.

The project will be implemented in the central provinces of Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue of Vietnam, and southern Lao provinces of Saravane and Sekong.

On Aug. 20, a delegation of German experts led by KfW senior expert Alice Salburg visited Thua Thien-Hue province to work with the provincial authority.

Alice Salburg said that Thua Thien-Hue will receive about USD 2.5 million to carry out four components of the project in four years to raise the capacity of natural resources, reduce illegal transport of timber in border areas between Vietnam and Laos, assist forest recovery and plantation and ensure the reduction of carbon into the environment.

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