Agriculture at mercy of climate change
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Vietnam is among the top five countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world. As the World Resources Institute has noted, the country ranks fourth out of 164 countries surveyed on the damage from floods on the economy, losing 2.3 per cent of GDP each year and causing half of all agricultural land in the Mekong Delta to be submerged and unable to be cultivated in the future.