(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to work closely with and support Vietnam to effectively cope with climate change.
 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) meets with IPCC Chairman Hoesung Lee in Hanoi on October 24 (Photo: VNA)

Greeting IPCC Chairman Hoesung Lee in Hanoi on October 24, he spoke highly of the cooperation between the IPCC, which is under the World Meteorological Organisation, and Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, especially amid heavy climate change impacts on the country at present. 
Mr. Phuc asked the IPCC to help promote Vietnam’s capacity in climate change-related research and help VNese agencies, universities, institutes and hydro-meteorological centre to take part in its research groups, especially those on climate change.
Vietnam hopes for the IPCC’s close coordination to realise the agreements reached at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21), which Vietnam also participated in.
Hoesung Lee said the IPCC is fully aware of the climate change challenges facing Vietnam, and it is implementing climate change research activities around the globe. He expressed his belief that Vietnamese scientists will have valuable studies which can help the IPCC fulfil its task, thereby contributing to the effective response to global climate change.