The United Kingdom as the incoming President of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November held a ministerial meeting on March 31 to discuss the issue of raising adequate funds for enabling developing countries to tackle climate change.
The COP26 Presidency invited ministers from about 40 developing and developed countries, and also key institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bangladesh was amongst the countries invited, and the foreign minister of Bangladesh spoke on behalf of both Bangladesh and the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), which is currently chaired by Bangladesh. Although the speeches of individual speakers were not made public, the COP26 Presidency has released a summary of the discussions held with pledges of follow-up action from the UK as COP26 President going forward.
Bangladesh is planning to adapt to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change and aiming to become a resilient country by 2030, as both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change goals are supposed to be achieved by that year.
At the same time, we are looking forward to graduating out of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) status in the next few years and need to also plan this transition carefully. One important dimension of transitioning from being an LDC to becoming a developing country is for knowledge generation and capacity-building to be carried out by our own citizens, rather than depending on international consultants to provide us with technical assistance.
BESCHLOSS: Hello, and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations, ladies and gentlemen. Very pleased to be here today. It is with much excitement that I welcome Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh today.
Prime Minister Hasina has been the leader of Bangladesh for over ten years, following in the legacy of her late father, Sheikh Rahman, Bangladesh’s first president. She has steered the country through an incredible period of growth. The growth in Bangladesh has been so much higher not just compared to the G-7 countries, but to the rest of emerging markets. And in the last two years it has been in the region of 7 to 8 to 9 percent, which is one of the highest rates, really, across most economies. She has received international praise for her management of the Rohingya crisis, accepting over one million forcibly-displaced persons into Bangladesh and providing them with safe haven. She has long been a proponent of women’s and children’s rights. And as Bangladesh’s long
Ample avenues of opportunities for Bangladesh, Maldives
Rajib Kanti Roy
11th February, 2021 11:53:21
The relations between Bangladesh and the Maldives have never seen any vicissitude since the inception. Both the countries have stood together in difficult times and supported each other in international forums. Gradually, the cooperation between the two countries has deepened and their relations are heading towards a new era.
Since the beginning of the Bangladesh-Maldives diplomatic relationship in 1978, both the countries have been sharing warm and friendly ties. These relations are based on goodwill, understanding and reciprocal cooperation.
Bangladesh stands by the Maldives every time it faces a crisis and the island country always expresses its gratitude in return.
Mangrove restoration leads to greater resilience in Bangladesh: report
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human-made solutions to deal with climate change impacts, a mangrove
reforestation project helps strengthen resilient to climate change in
Bangladesh, according to a global report.
The State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2020, released recently for the
first time by the Global Center on Adaptation, says protecting and restoring
green ecosystems, such as forests and wetlands, can harness the power of
nature to complement gray infrastructure, such as dams and seawalls.
“Green measures often have lower costs than human-made solutions,” the
report revealed, mentioning that one example in Bangladesh involves
reforesting coastal greenbelts while developing floating vegetable farms and