SANGSAD BHABAN, June 29, 2019 (BSS) – Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin today said the government has taken an initiative to formulate a long-term National Adaption Plan (NAP) to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change.
“Meanwhile, the government has received a US$ 2.million grant from Green Climate Fund aiming to formulate the National Adaption Plan (NAP),” he told the parliament while responding to a starred question placed by ruling party lawmaker M Abdul Latif (Chattogram-11).
Once the NAP is formulated, the minister said, it will help get more foreign funds in addressing climate change.
About the government’s measures taken to deal with the adverse impacts of global warming, he said the Environment, the Forest and Climate Change Ministry in 2009 formulated the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) to address climate change.
Shahab Uddin said the government also set up a 17member high-level Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF) and it has so far allocated Tk 3,500 crore to the fund since fiscal 2009-10.
Noting that many projects are being implemented to strengthen the capacity of different ministries and agencies in climate change adaptation taking fund from the BCCTF, he said a total of 688 projects have so far been taken from the fund, while 343 projects were completed.
The climate change minister said the government has taken measures to get fund directly from the Green Climate Fund from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
He said Bangladesh Forest Department has already submitted the concept paper of a US$80 million project titled ‘Climate Resilient and Coastal Forestry in Bangladesh (2020-2024)’ to the Green Climate Fund.