Minh Anh Nguyen
Fellow
Minh Anh Nguyen joined IASS since April, 2020 as a Fellow under the International Climate Protection Fellowship Program funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her current research at IASS focuses on climate policy, specifically in assessing the transformational change impact of the climate mitigation actions in the scope of energy sector within the National Determined Contribution of Vietnam. Minh hold a MSc. on Climate Change with background in International Economics.
Before joining IASS, she worked at GIZ Vietnam where she involved in different climate mitigation projects such as "Support to Vietnam for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement", "Advancing Transport Climate Strategy in Vietnam" (TraCS) and "Creation of an overarching framework for NAMAs and MRV in Viet Nam". She was involved in the development process of the NDC, NAP as well as the Paris Agreement's implementation at her home country. Moreover, she was the focal point for the development of Low Carbon Bus NAMA- one of the first NAMA of Vietnam for transport sector submitted to NAMA Facility.
Before, she acted as Coordinator of NGO's Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) affiliated at CARE International. During this time, she was selected as one of the Vietnamese CSO's representatives to attend the COP21 in Paris where she brought the voices of people at most risk in Vietnam to this high level climate summit as well as cooperated closely with other CSOs in the region.
Blog Posts
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- Climate policy, National Determined Contributions (NDCs), Long-term strategies (LTSs)
- Transformational change assessment, paradigm shift assessment of climate change mitigation
- Co-benefit of climate change mitigation with focus on sustainable energy and energy transition
- Gender mainstreaming into climate policy and climate action
Publications at the RIFS
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Schreyoegg, Anna, Pham, T. H. Net, Nguyen, A. Minh, „Gender mainstreaming into National Determined Contribution (NDC) - Case study from Vietnam" (Dec 2019)
- Nguyen, H. Thuan, Nguyen, A. Minh, Dao, M. Trang, "NAMA in Vietnam: Guidance document for preparing proposals of supported NAMAs" (Jul 2018)
- Nguyen, T. Tung., Nguyen, V. Thanh., Nguyen, A. Minh, "Estimating the economic impact of climate change in aquaculture - a case study in clam culture of Giao Xuan commune, Giao Thuy district, Nam Dinh province, Vietnam", (Sep 2015) Vietnam Journal of Agriculture Science
- Nguyen, A. Minh, "Implication of Vietnam's Environmental Protection Tax Law in the green economy transition process" (Jan 2015), Conference Proceeding - Green Growth Knowledge Platform "Fiscal Policies the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge - Creating Impact"
- Reed, O. Sarah, Nguyen, V. Nghi, Nguyen, A. Minh, Ha, T. K. Lien, Tran, M. Hung, Ngo, V. Thien, Nguyen, T. K. Anh; "Building Coastal Resilience in Vietnam: An integrated, community-based approach to mangrove management, DRR & CCA" (Jun 2014)
- Truong, H. Quang, Nguyen, T. Yen, Tran, M. Hung, Nguyen, A. Minh, "Case studies of livelihood models using integrated community-based approach to mangrove management, DDR and CCA" (Jun 2014)
- International Climate Protection Fellowship Program funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- YSEALI Academic Fellowship on Sustainable Environment funded by USA government
- Sasakawa Young Talent Scholarship (Japan)
- UNU-ISP Fellowship for the intensive training course "Building Resilience to Climate change" under the framework of the University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research (UN-CECAR), Tokyo, Japan