Typhoons and floods batter Vietnam, fuelling investor demand for climate-resilient infrastructure

[HO CHI MINH CITY] As Vietnam contends with extreme weather events, the rise in typhoons and their destructive flooding have heightened demand for climate-resilient infrastructure across the country’s industrial parks, which hosts thousands of export-oriented factories and serve as the region’s key manufacturing hubs.

With some 3,260 km of coastline and two densely populated river deltas, Vietnam’s exposure to climate change has grown increasingly evident over the past year. The country faces the highest flood risk in the region and the third-highest globally, with nearly half its population – about 46 per cent – at risk.

In September alone, Vietnam was struck by two of the four storms that formed in the South China Sea, bringing the total to 10 storms in the first nine months of the year.