The GEMMES Vietnam project was initiated in response to a request from the Department of Climate Change (DCC) of Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), serving as the General Secretariat of the Vietnamese National Committee on Climate Change (NCCC).
In 2018, the Vietnamese government and AFD jointly agreed to undertake a two-year extensive study of the socio-economic effects of climate change and adaptation strategies for Vietnam in a long-term perspective, up to 2050.
The GEMMES Vietnam project is currently in its second phase (2023-2026).
The first phase, conducted in partnership with the Institute for Development Research (IRD) and funded by the 2050 Facility, had the following main objectives:
- To support Vietnam in building a development trajectory that is resilient to the effects of climate change, particularly in the long term (by 2050)
- Capacity building in research (such as theses, post-docs, seminars and training), notably by a network of Franco-Vietnamese researchers
- Feeding a public policy dialogue with the Vietnamese government at the ministerial and local levels (adaptation strategy, Mekong plan, etc.)
- Raising public awareness of the impacts of climate change
The second phase of the program was officially launched at COP28 in December 2023 and aims to support the development of a just transition approach in Vietnam. Building on the results of the first phase of GEMMES Vietnam, it brings together researchers and policymakers to provide science-based evidence on three different aspects:
- The assessment of changes in extreme climate events to inform adaptation policies
- The modelling of the macroeconomic impact of the energy transition
- The social dimensions of climate change and the energy transition
Funded via the 2050 Facility, this program aims to inform public policy dialogue regarding net-zero strategies, contribute to the development and implementation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) and of Vietnam’s National Determined Contribution (NDC 2030).
See also: AFD and Macroeconomic Modelling Tools for the Ecological Transition