In the morning of March 23, at Vinh City (Nghe An province), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the People's Committee of Nghe An province organized a meeting to celebrate the World Meteorology Day 2015 with its theme "Climate knowledge for climate action".
At the meeting, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Nguyen Minh Quang highly appreciated the important role of the sector of meteorology, hydrology in disaster prevention and socio-economic development. The Minister also asked the sector to raise the awareness; determine the specific and practical actions to contribute to the disasters prevention; to complete the legal system on meteorology, hydrology and climate change; to enhance the scientific research and basic investigation; to improve the forecasting, especially on weather, climate, and disaster warning, so as to serve more effective the flood and storm prevention, as well as respond to climate change.