Issue 2 | June 2019
Dear Reader,
please find enclosed the “BMU IKI Viet Nam Newsletter”, edited in June 2019. It contains recent climate- and environment-related news and information about the project portfolio of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) in Viet Nam, financed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).
We wish you an interesting read!
Best regards,
Anna Pia Schreyoegg
on behalf of the IKI-Interface in Viet Nam
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