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Our family’s small quest to save the planet began a couple of years ago, when my 8-year-old daughter saw a heartbreaking photo in National Geographic of a polar bear stranded on a shrinking ice floe.

She wanted to know why the polar bear looked so scared, so we explained about climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon emissions from cars and electric plants.

And then she insisted that we do all we could to save the polar bears.

Denmark helps Vietnam cope with climate change

The Danish Government will grant US$40 million in a non-refundable aid to help Vietnam carry out a programme on climate change adaptation and mitigation in the 2009-2013 period.