CLITECH- To contribute to NDC Agriculture is the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emission in Vietnam, only after the energy sector. The Government and development partners of Vietnam expressed interest and commitment in the implementation of NDC in the agricultural sector. Rice is the top agri sub-sectors emitting the biggest part of carbon in Vietnam. Businesses in this sub-sector have been quite familiar with complying to international production standards for export. This is a favourable condition to tailor and promote CBI to rice businesses with supportive schemes (brand promotion, impact investment, market access and tax reduction) to mobilize corporate participation in emission reduction.

Project rationale:
This project will address those gaps and connect thosedots by working with UNDP, MONRE, Vietnam Food Association (VFA) and Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) to tailor and promote Climate and EnvironmentBusiness Index (CEBI) among rice businesses to mobilize their voluntary climate actions as well as to systematically anchor their participation in policy making process for developing concrete implementation mechanisms under NDC. Oxfam in Vietnam has been workingin promoting sustainable rice value chains for years. We have wide network and cooperation relationships with the agri-business associations and businesses of all size in the sub-sector. This is our advantage in brokering and coordinating key stakeholders’ participation in this project.
This project will deploy innovative approach to initiate and mobilize climate actions among rice businesses, to coordinate participation and supports from business associations, governmental agencies and UNDP. Once proven effective, these comprehensive and outside-the-box participatory approach and methods can be replicated to other agricultural sub-sectors, other industries and other countries of similar context.
This project will complement to OiV’s existing projects on developing sustainable andclimate resilient SMEs and livelihoods for smallholderproducers in agricultural value chains in Vietnam. This project aligns to VCCI and VFA’s overall efforts of promoting sustainable production and trade among agricultural businesses in Vietnam. The Climate Change Department under MoNRE has committed to work with OiV to integrate CEBI into NDC implementation mechanism. This project is synergized to efforts of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) in Vietnam to promote green growth. UNDP in Vietnam has a network of impact investors for green growththat can be introduced to pioneer CEBI adopters. OiV has discussed and agreed with UNDP to link businesses participating in this project to their investment network.

General objective:
Improve the capacity of enterprises to respond to climate change,promote the production of climate-friendly goods/services, and gradually contribute to perfecting the policy framework to attract businesses to participate in climate change response activities. back of the Government.
Specific objectives:
1.Proposinga set of indicators and a process for assessing the capacity of enterprises to adapt to climate change in rice production and trading activities.
2. Piloting the application of CEBI with rice production enterprises and proposing an expansion roadmap forsmall and medium enterprises in Vietnam.