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Bangladesh to demand 15pc of adaptation fund: Hasan

Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh will demand at least 15 percent of the global climate change adaptation fund -- proportionate to its population -- at the Copenhagen summit.
State Minister for Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud said this yesterday explaining Bangladesh's stand at the summit.
He was speaking at a press conference titled 'Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference and Bangladesh's Response’ at the Press Information Department in the capital.
The minister said Bangladesh will also urge the developed countries to give the proposed 1.5 percent of their GDP to generate a fund of $450 to $600 billion per year
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for climate change adaptation.
"The total vulnerable population due to climate change is over 1 billion, and among them around 150 million are Bangladeshi," he said.
He said a separate body --easily accessible to the most vulnerable and Least Developed Countries --should be responsible for the fund operation, not the World Bank or International . Monetary Fund.
* A separate fund for technology transfer should be formed, stressed the minister.
He also said Bangladesh would also demand of the developed nations to reduce carbon emission by 45 percent within 2020 to save die world.
Denmark chose Bangladesh for giving its credits against increased carbon emissions. The announcement would come at the Copenhagen Conference, informed the minister terming it significant for Bangladesh. He said the fund would be used for the country's brick kilns’ develop-
ment to reduce carbon emission.
Hasan said the government started encouraging the solar panel installation across the country in a bid to reduce carbon emission although Bangladesh is not legally bound to adopt climate change mitigation.
He said the global leaders should rewrite refugee definition by including the climate refugees as more than 20 million people of Bangladesh would be displaced and around 20 percent of the costal area would go under water if the sea level rises by one meter by 2050. They also demanded to give them shelter in the developed countries, he said.
Speaking as special guest. Chairman of Bangladesh Development Board Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad said the insecurity of food, energy, water and livelihood may rise significantly in the coming years due to the climate change fallout in the South Asian nations.
He said. "We want justice, not kindness of the developed countries."