News, 20 May 2021
In the second episode of ‘Locally led adaptation – a time for action’, organisations that have signed up to the principles of locally led adaptation are held to account by two expert judges. Will their plans for tracking progress on putting local people in control of local level adaptation make the grade?
In this episode, ‘The ‘A’ Factor: accountability for locally led adaptation’, IIED’s Aditya Bahadur is joined by four global practitioners and researchers from organisations that have endorsed the eight principles for locally led adaptation to climate change. Each spells out what they propose to do to enable local people to be in the driving seat of climate adaptation decision-making, and how they will be able to show they are achieving these aims.
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This February, Bangladesh received the endorsement of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP) regarding its final timeline for exiting the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group. Bangladesh is now scheduled to leave the LDC category in 2026.
As we leave the group, Bangladesh will miss out on the LDC -specific preferences and privileges afforded by its international development partners. The most specific and significant loss will be duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access for the country s export items.
This is a situation that all Bangladesh exporters will be watching most closely. The EU (along with the huge UK) market currently accounts for about 62 percent of apparel exports and nearly 56 percent of all exports from Bangladesh. Losing these huge trading benefits overnight represents a serious risk for Bangladesh s export competitiveness. Logically, addressing DFQF loss-related fallouts particularly in the EU market must be a core pillar of Bangladesh s