Details

Country
Viet Nam
Publication date
31 Dec, 2013
Citation
Act 33 of 2013
Source language

English

Abstract

This law provides natural disaster prevention and control activities and specifies the rights and obligations of agencies, organisations, households and individuals engaged in natural disaster prevention and control activities. It also commits the government to managing and devoting financial resources to natural disaster prevention and control.
 
The law specifies that natural disaster prevention and control activities must be based on scientific grounds, protect the environment, and recognise the importance of adapting to climate change. It requires the creation, every 10 years, of a National Strategy on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control which must include results of any climate change-related risks. District level and provincial natural disaster prevention and control plans must identify potential climate change-related impacts on socio-economic activities.

 

 

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