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Last week, the ICEM team travelled to An Giang and Dong Thap as part of a series of risk assessment missions across the VN-ADAPT project’s six provinces: An Giang, Dong Thap, Vinh Long and Ca Mau in the Mekong Delta, and Dak Lak and Lam Dong in the Central Highlands. The mission combined technical consultations, participatory mapping, and field visits to bring together scientific analysis and the first...

A basin under strain The Red River basin supports more than 33.5 million people (based on the 2020 census), yet the natural systems that sustain them are in decline. The basin covers 169,020 km², with more than half in Viet Nam, and carries an average annual flow of 127.33 billion m³, 38 percent of which originates outside the country, largely in China. Even under optimal allocation, modelling indicat...

A major step forward for conservation in the Mekong region! Today, the Lao Government and International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Mekong Protected Areas and Development III (Mekong PAD III) program. Mekong PAD III aims to halt biodiversity loss across the Mekong region through ecosystem protection and restoration, building clim...