Lauren Sorkin - Environment & Climate Change Specialist, ADB Vietnam

1. From Awareness to Action:
ADB’s Support for Adaptation
Viet Nam
Lauren Sorkin
June 2013
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2. Outline
1. ADB & Viet Nam - Shared Priorities
2. ADB’s Portfolio at Risk
3. ADB’s Response: Infrastructure
Resilience

3. 1. ADB and Viet Nam – Shared
Priorities

4. ADB Climate Change Strategic Priorities
Finance Knowledge Partnerships
Scaling-up Clean Energy
Encouraging Sustainable Transport and Urban Development
Managing Land Use and Forests for Carbon Sequestration
Strengthening Policies, Governance and Capacity
ModalitiesModalities
PrioritiesPriorities
Promoting Climate-resilient Development

5. Three Concepts That Should Be Addressed
to Build A Climate Resilient Asia Pacific
• Impacts
• Vulnerability
• Adaptation and
Disaster Risk
Reduction
•Sea Level Rise
•Temperature Changes
•Increase Severity and Frequency of Storms
•Economic (e.g. economic growth)
•Social (ethnic people, women, children, poor)
•Biophysical (infrastructure, natural systems)
•Economic (e.g. economic growth)
•Social (ethnic people, women, children, poor)
•Biophysical (infrastructure, natural systems)

6. 2. ADB’s Portfolio at Risk

7. Climate Change Vulnerability Map
Five climate
related risks;
population
density as proxy
for human
sensitivity;
protected areas
as a proxy for
ecological
sensitivity
tropical cyclones, floods, landslides, droughts, and sea level rise

8. ADB Portfolio at RiskADB Portfolio at Risk
•• Objective: the preliminary identification of the level ofObjective: the preliminary identification of the level of
potential risk facingpotential risk facing ADBADB’’ss active loan (sovereign)active loan (sovereign)
portfolio from anticipated climate change impactsportfolio from anticipated climate change impacts
•• Risk calculated using the formula:Risk calculated using the formula: Risk = a + b + cRisk = a + b + c
where,where,
a = Geoa = Geo--climatic zone vulnerabilityclimatic zone vulnerability
b = Sector vulnerabilityb = Sector vulnerability
c = Governance vulnerabilityc = Governance vulnerability
Risk categories: High, Medium, LowRisk categories: High, Medium, Low

9. ADB Portfolio at Risk: ResultsADB Portfolio at Risk: Results

10. ADB Portfolio at Risk: Results continuedADB Portfolio at Risk: Results continued

11. ADB Portfolio at Risk: Results continuedADB Portfolio at Risk: Results continued

12. Stop and Think: Implications?
• Energy
• Urban Planning
• Agriculture
• Transport
• Water

13. 3. ADB’s Response

14. ADB’s Adaptation Approach
• Adaptation is a development issue
• Emphasizing prevention over response
• Knowledge building and sharing tools
• Investment projects as pilots

15. ADB’s Major Contributions to
Adaptation in Infrastructure
• Support to the NTP-RCC with a focus on Energy
and Transport
• Improvement of Road Safety and Climate
Resilience on National Highways
• Secondary Cities Development Project
• Impact and Adaptation Study in the Mekong
Delta
• Central Mekong Connectivity Project
• Promoting Climate Resilient Rural Infrastructure
in Northern Viet Nam

16. Improvement of Road Safety and Climate
Resilience on National Highways

17. Secondary Cities Development Project

18. Central Mekong Connectivity
Project

19. Knowledge and Awareness Raising
• Climate Change in Road Transport
• Climate Change in Energy
• CC Atlas- Kien Giang and Ca Mau
• HCMC Coastal Cities
• Regional Knowledge Networks – APAN, GMS-EOC
• Training modules

20. Questions? Comments
Please ask our panel!
email lsorkin@adb.org
and visit
http://www.adb.org/publications/buildin
g-resilience-climate-change-adaptation-
technical-
resources?ref=themes/climate-
change/publications