Participants included representatives from Germany’s Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), the International Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD Montreal) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Scientists predict that Vietnam will be one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change due to its long coastline and low-lying riverside areas.

More than one third of Vietnam’s population and about 16 percent of its land will be affected if sea levels rise by 5m and hundreds of creatures will be in danger of extinction following the degradation of arenga and mangrove forests.

On the world scale, climate change and biodiversity erosion will have negative impacts on the employment of millions of people and the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals.