Climate Change Tackled by Australia-MRC Partnership
MRC No. 06/08
Vientiane, Lao PDR
2 April, 2008
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and the Government of Australia are joining together to study climate change in the Mekong region, and to help the governments of the area develop strategies to adapt to new environmental conditions.
Under the new agreement, researchers from Australia’s
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
(CSIRO) and the MRC will work together to assess the potential
impacts of climate change in the countries of the Lower
Mekong Basin: Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam.
The partnership is funded by a 450,000 Australian dollar
(US$409,000) contribution from the Australian state development
agency, AusAID, to CSIRO and the MRC. Jeremy Bird, the new
Chief Executive Officer of the MRC, called the project “an
important step forward in meeting the challenges posed by
possible climate change”.
“Australia is already providing important support
to the MRC’s work across the basin”, said Mr
Bird, “particularly in the fields of basin development
planning and capacity building. This project will show the
value of Australian technical expertise and the MRC’s
ability to coordinate scientific research within the region”.
The MRC will use the results of the project in advising
its Member States how to ensure that climate change does
not further disadvantage the poorest people in the Lower
Mekong Basin.
For more information please contact:
Aiden Glendinning, Communications Officer a.i.,
MRC Secretariat,
Tel: 856 21 263 263 Ext 4703.
Mobile: (856) 20 559 9139
Email: aiden@mrcmekong.org
Website: www.mrcmekong.org
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