2008Nov20: “Vietnam has been one of the most successful countries in lifting people away from the clutches of poverty but unless urgent global action is taken, climate change is set to push them back. Rising sea-levels, torrential rain and flooding, land salinisation and drought are already devastating people’s lives and climate models show that Vietnam can expect much worse,” said Steve Price-Thomas, Oxfam’s country director in Vietnam (In The News, 2008).
Reference: In The News. 2008. http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/autocodes/countries/vietnam/climate-change-threatening-millions-in-vietnam-$1250092.htm
Image Description: Ho Chi Minh City. Near Tran Nguyen Han Statue. Photo by Mike, 2007Dec16. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh_City_street_1.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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