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Climate Change

Adaptation main challenge

Soys visiting Danish minister

Staff Correspondent
Adaptation to climate change is one of the biggest challenges for Bangladesh right now, and it is already making efforts to face this challenge and should share its knowledge and experience in this field with other countries.
Visiting Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaar said this at a seminar on “Road to Copenhagen--Seen from Bangladesh^ at a city hoteT yesterday.
State Minister for Environment and Forest Mustafizur Rahman, who also spoke at the seminar, asked for resources from development partners to integrate climate change initiatives in the country's mainstream developmentprocess.
The Danish minister said," I have learnt that in Bangladesh up to 40 percent of the investment in development and infrastructure is likely to be affected by climate change." The Danish government committed additional initial funds for the new Strategy and Action Plan for Management of Climate Change for Bagladesh, she added.
"Denmark is contributing 120 million taka or 10 million Kroner in addition to the more than two billion taka that we already commit each year here in Bangladesh," Hedegaar said.
Mustafizur also sought support of development partners, including Denmark, Sweden and the UK, to Bangladesh's proposal for setting up an international adaptation research and training centre.
The seminar was held ahead of Denmark's hosting of Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP) 15ofUNFCCC.
The state minister said Bangladesh prefers a shared vision regarding all the four elements of the Bali Action Plan namely mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer and finance.
"Bangladesh deems it fitting in her unique socioeconomic and environmental context to achieve this shared vision which ensures her food, water, energy and livelihood security," he said in a statement read out by the environmentsecretary.
Mustafizur noted that people of Bangladesh do not believe in isolated development. "International cooperation and development walk hand in hand," he said.
He mentioned that the government has already set up Climate Change Fund and received the DFID support as pledged in the London Conference on Climate Change.
The state minister urged Denmark and other development partners to support Bangladesh's initiatives to face the challenges posed by climate change and her quest for a cleaner and greener planet.
Environment Secretary AHM Rezaul Kabir, Danish Ambassador Einer Jensen and Dr Atiq Rahman, director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, were on the panelists at the seminar. Foreign diplomats, environment experts and officials attended it.