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due attention to building climate resilience and directing resources toward the most marginalised, he added.

“The biggest challenge we will have is the melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas because it means flooding in the short term and sea level rise in the long term. We will lose about one-third of our agriculture GDP between now and 2050, and we can lose up to 9 percent of our GDP by 2100,” Saber said.

“For us, it is not just one sector of our economy; it is an existential challenge for Bangladesh.”

When asked where Bangladesh stands in tackling the climate crisis, Saber said the country is nowhere near where it was supposed to be.

He, however, said Bangladesh is looking back in retrospect to find where it made mistakes to utilise the knowledge to mitigate future challenges.

He said Bangladesh sees mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage as interconnected.

“The more effective our mitigation in terms of keeping temperatures in check, the more manageable the adaptation becomes, and the more manageable the adaptation becomes, the lesser the burden that we pass on the loss and damage.”