Viet Nam News Xuân Hiệp and An Phương HCM CITY – Parliaments should take stronger action to respond to climate change by maximising their roles as legislators and supervisors as well as enhancing international co-operation to ensure “no one is left behind”, said a Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) official. Speaking at the closing session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference that ended on Saturday, Tòng Thị Phóng, vice chairwoman of the NA, said climate change was among the most serious threats to sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. “Climate change represents a serious threat to human health and well-being. It can affect health through direct natural disasters, such as floods and storms, but also through communicable disease, food insecurity and population displacement,” she said. The NA has discussed potential measures to promote lawmakers’ role in effectively carrying out sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensuring that “no one is left behind”, according to Phóng. She said all parliaments were urged to use the IPU/UNDP Self-Assessment Toolkit as a useful way of identifying how to advance sustainable development. Phóng also said parliaments of participating countries were responsible for co-ordinating with the United Nations (UN) to empower parliaments and delegates in carrying out…

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