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UN Climate Summit

PM urges big nations to cut emissions

BSS, United Nations
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the large carbon emitting countries to make their robust voluntary carbon reduction commitment to save the motherly earth from onslaught of climate change.
"It's our commitment to low-carbon and climate-resilient development path. The large emitting countries should reciprocate by robust voluntary commitments like ours," she told the National Action and Ambition Announcement session of the UN Climate Summit-2014 at the UN headquarters in New York.
She assured that Bangladesh as a responsible member of the international community would never exceed the average per-capita emission limit ofthe developingworld.
Adaptation, said Hasina, is the key for vulnerable countries like Bangladesh. "We can't be left to adapt to 'degradation' because of climate change"
she added.
The PM said the issues of "adaptation" and "loss and damage" are also crucial for Bangladesh for sustainable development. Critical balance should be maintained between adaptation and mitigation. Support to finance, technology development and transfer and capacity building is also important as well, she observed.
She said every country should have a clear, measurable and verifiable Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Bangladesh is working on her possible INDCs, but new and additional resources would be needed for their implementation, mentioned the premier.
Urging the world leaders to pay attention to "Carbon budgeting" and "de-carbonisation pathways", the prime minister said robust and early capitalisation of Green Climate Fund (GCF) is crucial for us. Hasina said adequate and predictable financing is essential for adaptation planning and its implementation. Private climate finance can only be complementary for mitigation, she added.
Highlighting Bangladesh's constant endeavour to green economy, she said Bangladesh in recent years has undertaken significant steps in this regard.
The country now has 3.2 million Solar Home Systems (SHS), over 1.5 million Improved Cook Stoves (ICS), she said adding a 10-year Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan is under implementa-tion. Under the action plan, Bangladesh has already developed varieties of stress-tolerant crops, noted the PM.
Though Bangladesh is a climate-vulnerable LDC, the country so far allocated $385 million from own resources for adaptation and mitigation, she said.
Hasina added: "Yet, climate change continues to affect the lives and livelihood of millions in our unique and active delta."
She said climate change may threaten the production of Bangladesh's wheat and major rice crop (Boro). In addition, many people may have to move out, changing their traditional living and livelihood. Studies suggest that two to three percent of our GDP may be wiped out because of climate change,
mentioned the PM.
Presidents of Bolivia, Brazil, Turkey, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Croatia, Austria, and Uganda also spoke.
Earlier, the PM attended the inauguration of the Climate Conference-2014 in which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, chair of IPCC Rajendra K Pachauri and former US vice-president Al Gore also spoke.
Addressing the inaugural session of the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for raising ambition, mobilise resources, and generate action towards a universal climate deal.
"We are not here to talk, we are here to make history. The human, environmental and financial cost of climate change is fast becoming unbearable. We need a clear shared vision," he said.
"I am asking you to lead. We must cut emissions. Science says they must peak by 2020 and decline sharply thereafter. By the end of this century we must be carbon neutral," added Ban.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairperson of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the earth's surface than any other decade since 1850.
"How on Earth can we leave our children with a world like this?" he questioned. "I'm not sure I could stand before you if the threats of climate change had no solutions," added the IPCC chief.
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