Training programme on coping with climate change reviewed

The Ministry of Education and Training and the UNESCO in Vietnam co-organised a ceremony in Hue city, Thua Thien – Hue province on December 13 to review the Education Initiative for Sustainable Development (ESD) project.

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The project aimed to provide knowledge and skills to the students, their parents and society to adapt to climate change, prepare them to cope with natural disasters and help them preserve biodiversity.

The initiative also aimed to set up an online training programme for elementary school teachers in Thua Thien-Hue.

Two years after being implemented, the programme has successfully trained 2,500 students and their parents in five primary schools in Thua Thien – Hue province on climate change and natural disasters.

The selected schools were helped to develop and implement their plans on assessing and preventing possible disasters and threats, as well as train their teachers.

The province and the district authorities were assisted to develop an action plan and a strategy to minimise the risks in the management of Vietnamese heritages, particularly the Hue Citadel, and improve decision making based on the use of satellite images.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)