Deputy General Director of the National Hydro-meteorological Service speaks at the launching ceremony (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A photo contest themed“People and nature in the context of climate change for sustainabledevelopment” was launched on June 16 by the National Hydro-meteorologicalService (NHS) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment inconjunction with the Vietnam Pictorial of the Vietnam News Agency.
The contest forms part of activities marking the50th anniversary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(UNESCAP)/World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Typhoon Committee and the50th session of the committee to be held in Vietnam in 2018.
It also aims to promote Vietnam’s contributionto multilateral international cooperation while affirming the country’sposition as one of the 14 members of the UNESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee.
Since Vietnam officially joined the committee in1979, the country has received support from the committee as well as the WMOand the UN Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (UNECAFE), the predecessorof UNESCAP, in research and training, thus serving the hydro-meteorologicalforecasting in the country.
The UNESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee is anintergovernmental organisation established in 1968 under the auspices of the UNECAFEand the WMO in order to promote and coordinate the planning and implementationof measures required for minimising the loss of life and material damage causedby typhoon in Asia-Pacific.
NHS Deputy General Director Tran Hong Thai, whois also head of the photo contest’s organising board, said the event is due toraise public awareness of natural disaster prevention and mitigation, andpromote the role of the hydro-meteorological sector in managing and exploitingthe hydro-meteorological forecasting network to serve the country’s sustainabledevelopment.
The contest will last from June 16-September 30,2017, calling for the participation of professional and amateur Vietnamesephotographers both at home and abroad.
Topics will focus on impacts of the nature,people joining hands in the context of climate change, and efforts to mitigatenatural disasters to serve sustainable development.-VNA
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Deputy General Director of the National Hydro-meteorological Service speaks at the launching ceremony (Source: VNA) 
