Representatives of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Forestry Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) together signed a 18-month project on June 11 focusing on "Researching potential areas for activities related to climate change".
The project will help Vietnam develop basic information of potential areas for activities in the framework of Kyoto Protocol. The project will, simultaneously, move on to research in the whole country in order to enhance forest planting in conformity with 'clean development' mechanism and to lure financial investment from private sector into forest planting projects which are facing financial challenges.
The project will also study and develop data about land that could be potentially used for reducing greenhouse gases deriving from deforestation.
This is the following stage of the project "Reinforcing capacity of forest planting and replating in conformity with 'clean development' mechanism" between JICA and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development from December 2006 to March 2009.
Source: Vietnamplus (VNA)
Edited and translated by TP (TITC)