Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on ministries and localitiesto continue improving their capacity to forecast natural disasters andchanges in the climate.

The leader made the appeal whilechairing the fourth meeting of the National Committee on Climate Changein Hanoi on February 19, during which he urged for the Party CentralCommittee’s resolution on responding to climate change to receive moremedia coverage so that the message spreads further and faster.

Ministries were also requested to rearrange capital sources to focus on projects tackling climate change conundrums.

The PM also reemphasised to localities the need to more closelymanage natural resources, especially the mining of minerals.

He laid special emphasis on the need to strengthen internationalcooperation in order to learn from the green initiatives of othernations.

Over recent years, Vietnam has paid dueattention to coping with climate change response and protecting theecological environment swiftly and effectively, he said.

Notably, the whole political machine united in November last year tofight against super typhoon Haiyan, which caused major destruction inparts of the country.

Regarding plans for 2014, thecommittee will integrate green growth with climate action andsocio-economic development at localities, the conference heard.

Vietnam will increase its engagement in global forums on greengrowth and the UN General Assembly’s meetings on climate change.

The committee members agreed that the implementation of programmesand solutions on climate change is of special significance to thecountry’s sustainable development.

Therefore, they suggestedcloser and more effective coordination between ministries, agencies andlocalities in forecasting work and building climate change scenarios.-VNA