The European Union and the French Development Agency (AFD) have established a 20-million-euro ($21.5 million) fund to help Vietnam deal with climate change. The EU will provide the money as a non-refundable grant to the AFD to run the fund.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 24 March expresses its willingness in an official letter to offer Viet Nam with timely and flexible support for the government’s response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.