Vietnam Climate Change Program Enabling Climate change has been identified as a strategic priority in Australia's strategic approach to aid in Vietnam 2010-15 in recognition that climate change poses a serious threat for Vietnam. Striking the right balance between economic growth and environmental sustainability will be a particular challenge as Vietnam advances toward its ambitions of becoming an industrialised country by 2020. The Vietnam Climate Change Program Enabling Initiative was first established to support the development of AusAID's new climate change portfolio and has since been expanded to include targeted research and technical assistance for the Government of Vietnam (GOV) to enable their climate change response. This includes: (i) technical assistance to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to identify options for reducing GHG emissions in the agricultural sector through a value-chain approach; (ii) a feasibility study into the potential establishment of a Climate Innovation Centre in Vietnam to s