EU, France: $78.5M for Quang Nam and Quang Tri to tackle climate change

The provinces of Quang Nam and Quang Tri in Vietnam will receive financial support worth €72.3 million ($78.5 million) from the EU and France to tackle the impacts of climate change.

The financing agreements of two climate change adaptation projects in the central provinces of Quang Nam and Quang Tri respectively were officially handed over on March 15 from the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance to the French Agency for Development (AFD).

The two projects include the “Coastal sustainable and preventive protection in Quang Nam province” and “Central coastal urban development towards green growth and response to climate change in Dong Ha city, Quang Tri province”.

The project in Quang Nam province is set to enhance the protection capacity of the entire coastline and restore beaches in a sustainable manner through two main solutions.

Firstly, combining of structural protection (submerged breakwater and groynes) for the area spreading from the river mouth to the Victoria resort with 5,000m long, and soft and nature-based solutions (beach nourishment), especially sacrificed nourishment for the extension area to the Northwest from the endpoint of the Northern Project to address the fundamental imbalance in sand supply to the northern part of the coastline.

For the project in Quang Tri province, efforts are made to reduce the impact of flooding by both adaptation and prevention approaches. Adaptation is applied through the design of the infrastructure solutions (river embankment, drainage system, green public areas) in response to climate change impacts and risks.