Due global climate adaptation actions not possible for lack of finance: PM
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DHAKA, Jan 25, 2021 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the lack of finance and political will were responsible for not taking due global actions for adapting to the damages caused by the adverse impact of the climate change.
“Adapting to the damage already done is as important as the process of reducing future losses and damages. But global adaptation actions are far from keeping pace with the scale of devastation due to lack of finance and political will,” she said.
She added that the recent experience of COVID-19 has proved the importance of being united and acting on time.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Joe Biden, the 46th president of the US, who took oath of office on Wednesday, especially for his country s return to the Paris Climate Agreement. You know that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the president of Climate Vulnerable Forum. We thanked Joe Biden especially, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters after the handover ceremony of India s vaccine doses as gift at the State Guest House Padma yesterday, reports UNB.
Momen said he was very happy to see Biden as the US president.
In a statement, the foreign ministry later said Bangladesh has welcomed new US President Joe Biden s important announcement on Wednesday to re-enter the Paris Climate Agreement.
Bangladesh has welcomed new US President Joe Biden's announcement yesterday to re-enter the Paris Climate Agreement. "Bangladesh also appreciates President Biden's promise to put the United States on a track to net-zero emissions by 2050 and his call to reestablish the US as a global climate leader," the foreign ministry said in a statement today. On June 1, 2017, the then US
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Momen for ensuring global climate justice The New Nation
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday said climate justice must be ensured for all countries as number of climate refugees is increasing in socially climate change vulnerable countries like Bangladesh. We have very practical experience of such a scenario having 1.1 million Rohingyas in Bangladesh creating environmental and social havoc, he said.
The minister was addressing virtually the Inaugural Session of Global Gobeshona Conference organized by International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), association with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).
Former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban-ki-Moon, lawmakers Md. Shahab Uddin and Saber Hossain Chowdhury and CEO of Global Centre on Adaptation Prof. Patrick V. Verkooijenon also spoke at the session.
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