The migration from the Mekong Delta to other
areas will increase in the future as the Mekong Delta is one of the three areas
most vulnerable to the global climate change, an expert told a seminar ending
in Can Tho City on Tuesday.
Florian
Forster, Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
in Vietnam, told the seminar on the climate change adaptation in the Mekong
Delta’s city that if the sea level rises by one meter, one third of the Mekong
Delta will be flooded.
Le Anh
Tuan from Research Institute for Climate Change under Can Tho University said
that the weather in the delta has changed much with prolonged dry season,
sudden floods, increasing saltwater intrusion, drought and landslides along the
sea.
The
climate change has also led to an increase in forest fires, diseases,
environmental pollution, social crimes and poverty, and thus resulting in the
migration from rural area to cities, Tuan added.
According
to Le Thanh Sang, deputy director of the Southern Institute of Sustainable
Development, the Mekong Delta is the area having the highest number of
migrants. Most migrants come from rural areas and three fourths of them come to
work in industrial parks in southeast provinces.
However,
this issue has yet to receive full awareness and suitable policies.
Participants
at the two-day seminar agreed that researches on impacts of the climate change
on livelihoods and migration in the Mekong Delta should be carried out so that
authorities can soon coordinate with international organizations to develop
policies and projects to respond to the climate change and migration.
SGT
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