HCM City is the largest city in Vietnam. The city is below sea level so it is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – the sea rise level and severe weather. The situation is similar in the Mekong River Delta.

The Mekong Delta is the rice basket of Vietnam and it accounts for 90 percent of Vietnam’s rice export. Farmers begin to change their crops and grow new rice varieties to adapt with climate change.

Ms Tran Thi Hong from Long Dinh village said that rice growing is getting difficult because farmers cannot forecast the weather.

Many people deal with unexpected water rise by building houses on stilts.

Houses and tombs are easily attacked by floods. Tombs are often built on high mounds but tombs in fields can’t survive after floods.

If floods continue to rise, more and more people will have to leave afloat. In Can Tho, floating markets are very popular.

But in HCM City, the major vehicle of over 7 million people are motorbikes. Vietnam is contributing to climate change.