Vietnam recorded a record temperature of 44.1 degrees Celsius on Saturday at a weather station in the north of the country. South Asia suffered from a heat wave for most of April, and neighboring countries also recorded record temperatures. "This is a worrying record in the context of climate change and global warming," climate science expert Nguyen Ngoc Huy told AFP from the capital Hanoi. Scientists have shown that global warming exacerbates extreme weather and intensifies major natural hazards such as heat waves and droughts.
Song Foundation, a Vietnamese non-profit supporting sustainable living communities, on August 16 held a workshop seeking the way to create shared value for climate change adaptation, with climate change experts and business representatives taking part.
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The latest draft of the National Power Development Plan 8 (PDP8) calculates with an expected commercial power capacity estimated at 491 billion kWh by 2030, and 877 billion kWh by 2045. To develop power capacity, the total installed power generation is planned to hit 137.2GW, contributed by 27 per cent coal-fired power, 21 per cent thermal gas, 18 per cent hydropower, and 29 per cent renewable energies, as well as 4 per cent imported energy by 2030.
By 2045, the capacity of installed power is planned to be around 276.7GW, supplied by 18 per cent coal thermal power, 24 per cent thermal gas, 9 per cent hydropower, and 44 per cent of renewable energies, as well as 2 per cent of imported energy.
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