Press Release: Climate change solutions for the coasts of
Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam 01 March 2012 | Media statement
Around the world coastal communities are struggling to
understand what climate change means for them and what they
should do about it. While the global discussion about what the
world should do about climate change lingers on, for coastal
communities the effects are very real and happening now.
Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam are among the most vulnerable in
the world to the impacts of climate change. Higher sea levels,
coastal erosion, stronger and more frequent cyclones, warmer sea
surface temperatures and increased high intensity rainfall and
floods threaten the way of life of 20 million inhabitants of the
coastal zone between Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City, as well as
food security and the national economies in these countries. To
address these issues, the European Union is providing a grant of
2,450,000 EUR to the Building Resilience to Climate Change
Impacts in Coastal Southeast Asia p