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Starting this year, Indonesia is applying a new spatial planning standard to more than 500 local city plans throughout the country to enhance climate resilience in these locations.  The tools for building climate resilience exist; but how they are applied and create the intended change depends on the local officials in charge of planning.Over three days in Jakarta in August, the Association between ICEM...

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...