85F 2024-2025

85F
EcoFlood Defense

Planting hope, one tree at a time!

Intro

Mission

To mitigate flood impact through Nature-Based Solutions and intentional planting.

The urgent problem now in Vietnam is flooding and storms. Recently, Typhoon Yagi hit Vietnam and left a lot of damage behind, including 329 dead or missing people, over 1000 injuries, 234,700 houses collapsing and more. Also, water levels rose a lot, sinking buildings and bridges. Over 100,00 trees were destroyed by it and a bridge even fell after the storm, leaving 150 dead people and 140 missing people. The total damage costs $3.3 billion. However, there are relief efforts in progress, using sustainable methods such as intentional planting of certain native species to increase the strength of the environment around the flood impacted area. Another example of what charities and organizations are doing to help recover is clearing debris, providing temporary shelter and giving food and water. Fortunately, flood resilience rates have risen comparing 2020 to 2024, but urban areas are still vulnerable to floods. Concrete prevents water from absorbing and water draining systems could overflow. Some related SDGs to solve this problem are SDG 11.5 and SDG 13.1. SDG 11.5 talks about cities needing to prevent disasters. It also gives an idea about how planting trees could reduce flooding impacts. Also, SDG 13.1 mentions natural disasters and the importance of prevention, specifically prevention by efficiently using natural resources. By exploring more on related SDGs, finding a solution is possible. This problem of flooding could affect communities and people heavily, like destroying homes and bringing economic burdens. Cities may sink in the worst case scenario. Therefore, we need to study the SDGs we mentioned and learn more to create safe, sustainable cities.