> View and download the Environment assessment tools for improving the sustainability of development in the Mekong Region Brief This brief introduces the main environmental [...]

The Asia Pacific region is likely to experience significant adverse impacts from climate change. A wide range of challenges must be met, including urban and [...]

> View and download the Climate Change Adaptation Methodology (CAM): Infrastructure Guide This guide describes a practical approach to integrating climate change into conventional infrastructure [...]

> View and download the Vietnam Case Study > View more about the Impact of Water Supply Infrastructure on Floods and Droughts in the Mekong [...]

> View and download the Cambodia Case Study > View more about the Impact of Water Supply Infrastructure on Floods and Droughts in the Mekong [...]

> View and download Regional Flood Frequency Analysis for the Mekong Basin: A tool for estimating hydrological characteristics in ungauged catchments > View and download [...]

> View and download Reservoir Flood Risk Index: Assessing the flood risk and capacity for control in Mekong hydro-electric reservoirs > View and download Reservoir [...]

Sustainable Urban Energy and Emissions Planning Phase III: Energizing Green Growth of Danang City (SUEEP III) Donor / Partner: World Bank | Duration: [...]

The Mekong River Basin faces a grave threat from climate change. Communities and governments must work together to develop and promulgate adaptation strategies that preserve the lives and livelihoods of some 60 million people. ICEM worked with DAI and SEA START as part of this U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project to generate new data, new approaches and to spur adaptive change in the Mekong River Basin.

The Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study for the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) was designed to serve as a model approach, describing the impacts on key livelihood sectors of the LMB including agriculture, capture fisheries and aquaculture, livestock, natural systems, health, and rural infrastructure. The Mekong ARCC Climate Study Team has now completed its final revision of this Study by addressing comments raised at the March Final Results Workshop in Bangkok, generated during the period of open public review, and from experts who formally peer reviewed technical aspects of the analysis.

The Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study for the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) was designed to serve as a model approach, describing the impacts on key livelihood sectors of the LMB including agriculture, capture fisheries and aquaculture, livestock, natural systems, health, and rural infrastructure.

This Headlines document offers a brief synopsis of important findings from the Mekong ARCC Climate Study for the Lower Mekong. It captures main results of climate impacts on crop suitability, fisheries, livestock, and ecosystems and non-timber forest products.

This agriculture sector vulnerability report provides a detailed summary of the issues and trends of climate change by ecozone. Agriculture, a key sector of the economy within the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), is highly dependent on climate and especially on rainfall frequency and distribution. With more than 1,000 mm of rainfall per year in the LMB, water shortage is not the primary constraint for agriculture. Instead, it is the unpredictability and variability of rainfall distribution during the rainy season that can lead to drought, water stress, and low yields.

This Key Final Results document offers a brief synopsis of the Mekong ARCC Climate Study for the Lower Mekong methodology and key findings. It captures main results of climate impacts on crop suitability, fisheries, livestock, and ecosystems and non-timber forest products.

This fisheries sector vulnerability report provides an overview of the current state of the important capture fisheries and aquaculture systems in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), focusing on those elements that are threatened by climate change. It also presents a methodology and results for vulnerability assessments, for six climate change hotspots (Chiang Rai, Khammouan, Gia Lai, Mondulkiri, Kien Giang, and Stung Treng).

This livestock sector vulnerability report presents the results of the livestock evaluation components of the Mekong ARCC study. It establishes an initial baseline of the current status, trends, drivers, and tolerances of key livestock production systems in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) and hotspot provinces, then uses this information to develop hotspot province vulnerability assessments, and ultimately adaptation options for livestock throughout the basin.

An important output of the Mekong ARCC Climate Study is the identification of climate change hotspots. By determining the ranges where temperature, rainfall, and soil characteristics at specific geographic locations create conditions that transform ecosystems and alter productivity of crops, livestock, and aquatic systems, a better understanding is gained of how climate change will impact community livelihood and subsistence options.

The purpose of the Wetlands Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment was to anticipate climate change impact and vulnerability of wetlands in the Mekong Basin, [...]

About: Rapid urbanization is taking place in South East Asia, with cities in the region expanding five times faster than those in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Urban growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) in the next 50-100 years is expected to be primarily experienced in small and medium-sized cities and peri-urban areas along existing and new growth corridors. Many of these areas are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

This series of three maps were developed as part of the USAID-funded Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change project (Mekong ARCC) in 2012. These maps are intended as companion maps to the Mekong Delta average flood baseline 1985-2005 depth and duration maps - to show the changes projected to 2050 as a result of climate change. The maps show a marked increase in flood depth and duration to 2050 in the Mekong Delta.

This series of three maps were developed as part of the USAID-funded Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change project (Mekong ARCC) in 2012. These maps are intended as companion maps to the Mekong Delta average flood climate change 2050 depth and duration maps also developed for the Mekong ARCC - showing the predicted changes as a result of climate change.

This map was developed as part of the USAID-funded Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change project (Mekong ARCC) in 2012. The map shows 12 ecozones within the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). The original ecozones were developed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2006. During the Mekong ARCC research phase, it was decided to work with the WWF original ecozone maps, and build on these to develop ecozone maps appropriate to the Mekong ARCC project requirements.

MRC SEA of Hydropower on the Mekong Mainstream: REPORTS SERIES Download the SEA of Hydropower on the Mekong Mainstream: Summary of the [...]

> View and download the VOL 1:  Ho Chi Minh City Adaptation to Climate Change: Executive Summary > View more about this project and download other [...]

> View and download VOL 2: Ho Chi Minh City  Adaptation to Climate Change: Main Report > More about this project and download other reports [...]

> View and download VOL 3:  Ho Chi Minh City Adaptation to Climate Change: Annexes > More about this project and download other reports in [...]

> View and download the Brief: Review and Analysis of the Pollution Impacts from Vietnamese Manufacturing Sectors > Find out more about this project > [...]

> Download Ho Chi Minh City Adaptation to Climate Change: Summary Report > More information and view other reports in the series Ho Chi Minh [...]

> View and download The Case of a Combined Cycle Power Plant – Final Report This report was produced as part of the ADB project: [...]

SEA of Hydropower on the Mekong Mainstream: Summary of the Final Report > Download report > More reports in this Special Reports Series Over [...]

Mekong Delta Bridges: Rapid Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Donor / Partner: ADB |    Duration: 2011-2012   |    Location: Mekong Delta The Mekong Delta Bridges: [...]

> View and download the Strategic Environmental Assessment as a tool to improve climate change adaptation in the Greater Mekong Subregion Brief The Greater Mekong [...]

This informational poster was developed as a knowledge product to showcase the findings from the USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (Mekong ARCC) program. ICEM managed the climate change impacts on agriculture study as part of this program. The poster demonstrates that adaptation in agriculture is urgently needed in the Mekong Region. The message of the poster is that climate change is projected to seriously affect the lives and livelihoods of more than 42 million people in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) who depend entirely on agriculture.

> Download CAM Brief The Asia Pacific region is likely to experience significant adverse impacts from climate change. In response to these challenges, ICEM developed [...]

Since 2006, interest in hydropower as escalated in the LMB. Most Mekong River tributaries have cascades of dams in place or planned with some 76 [...]

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The Mekong Delta is affected by upstream development – often in ways not fully understood and with uncertain impacts on natural, social and economic systems which sustain life and well being for millions of people in Vietnam. With expanding plans for major developments on the mainstream and its tributaries, those impacts are likely to become much more serious. Vietnam and its riparian neighbours do not have adequate scientific understanding for informed decision making on Mekong mainstream hydropower projects, especially on their downstream effects.

Strengthening Environmental Management and Land Administration (SEMLA) Donor / Partner:   MONRE    /    SIDA    |     Duration: 2005-2010     |     Location: Vietnam About:  ICEM was one of three [...]

Survey on the Revolving Fund for Household Sewerage in Binh Duong and Vinh Phuc Donor / Partner: JICA    |    Duration: 2009-2010   |    Location: Vietnam About: The overall objectives of [...]

Survey of the Pollution in the Dong Nai River Basin and Danang Donor / Partner: JICA    |    Duration: 2010   |    Location: Vietnam About: ICEM conducted a background study [...]

About: The Mekong River Basin faces a grave threat from climate change. Communities and governments must work together to develop and promulgate adaptation strategies that preserve the lives and livelihoods of some 60 million people. ICEM is working with DAI and SEA START as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project to generate new data, new approaches and to spur adaptive change in the Mekong River Basin.

About: The Government of Nepals (GoN’s) National Adaptation Programme of Action for Climate Change (NAPA) outlines 43 adaptation measures grouped into nine priority areas or ‘profiles’. Stemming from the NAPA, a Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) has been developed focusing on long-term interventions aimed at enhancing climate resilience in Nepal. Mainstreaming climate change risk management in development is a technical assessment component of the SPCR. The expected outcome is that the GoN’s infrastructure development programs, policies and projects incorporate safeguards to address the effects of climate change.

About: The objective of the project in northern Vietnam is to demonstrate effective bio-engineered solutions which, where possible, provide ‘win-win’ outcomes for resilience of rural infrastructure to climate risk and opportunities for community livelihood enhancement.

Support for the National Target Program on Climate Change with a Focus on Energy and Transport Donor / Partner:    Asian Development Bank (ADB)   [...]

Capacity Development Manual for the UNECE Protocol on SEA Donor / Partner: UNECE    |    Duration: 2003-2005   |    Location: 36 Signatory Countries to the UNECE SEA [...]

SEA of Hydropower and Biodiversity in Vietnam Donor / Partner:  World Bank (WB)    |     Duration: 2005-2006    |     Location: Vietnam About: This project aimed to demonstrate the value [...]

Review Status of SEA in the Greater Mekong Subregion Donor / Partner: Asian Development Bank (ADB) / GMS Environment Operations Center | Duration: 2006 [...]

SEA of the Hydropower Master Plan in the context of the Power Development Plan VI Donor / Partner: Asian Development Bank (ADB) / GMS [...]

National Industrial Pollution Sources Survey (NIPS) Donor / Partner: World Bank  (WB)     |     Duration: 2005-2006     |     Location: Vietnam About: The NIPS, Vietnam focuses on the manufacturing sector. This [...]

Industrial Pollution Sources Survey of the Cau and Day/Nhue River Basins Donor / Partner: Asian Development Bank (ADB) / MOI / EVN / MONRE     |     [...]