The research project aims first to identify potential impacts of climate change in HCMC and then to develop strategies to reduce the vulnerability of affected sites through urban planning decisions. The shift from risk research related to natural hazards to the more integrated view of vulnerability in climate change research includes two important aspects. Firstly, vulnerability assessment focuses on social and not only physical vulnerability. Secondly, it focuses more on factors related to societal development, institutional organization and administrative decision-making. Because the concept of vulnerability not only relates to the exposure of property and humans or to the physical susceptibility of exposed elements, adaptive capacity is strongly related to development issues. Within the scope of the conferences and workshops, a wide range of stakeholders involved in the urban environment and urban development will be included in the common discussions.