Connecting Delta Cities — Rotterdam's Climate-Adaptation Knowledge Transfer to Ho Chi Minh City

Rotterdam, much of which sits below sea level, established the Connecting Delta Cities knowledge network — now hosted under the C40 Cities network — to share flood- and climate-adaptation expertise with other low-lying delta cities, including London, Tokyo, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City.
Starting in 2011, Rotterdam worked with Ho Chi Minh City's government and the Dutch-led Vietnam Climate Adaptation Partnership (VCAPS) to build a shared climate-risk data atlas and a long-term adaptation strategy organised around six strategic directions, which was formally handed over to city authorities. The two cities later signed a new memorandum of understanding to continue the collaboration.
C40, the Dutch water-sector press and a Wageningen University case study document the knowledge-transfer process and its outputs — an adopted strategy document and a renewed cooperation agreement — but publicly available reporting does not yet show independently measured reductions in flood risk or demonstrated resilience gains in Ho Chi Minh City that can be attributed to the strategy.

Read the full analysis: https://www.c40.org/networks/connecting-delta-cities-network/