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‘Bangladesh to cut GHG emissions by 16pc by 2030’


By BSS
Published : 27 Apr 2022 10:09 PM | Updated : 28 Apr 2022 01:46 PM

Bangladesh will reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions by seven percent unconditionally and 16 percent conditionally by 2030.

“We have submitted updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last year (2021),” Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said on Wednesday.

He told a meeting with Swiss Ambassador in Dhaka Nathale Chuard at the ministry’s conference room in the capital.

Shahab Uddin said Bangladesh is at the final stage to develop the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) on Adaptation to Climate Change.

He said Bangladesh has signed and ratified all the major multilateral environmental agreements, including UNCBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD, Basel Convention, Stockholm Convention on POPS, Montreal Protocol on ODS and so on.

The environment minister said Bangladesh, with its limited landmass, has declared 5.77 percent terrestrial area of the country as nature conservation areas consisting of 48 Protected Areas and 13 Ecologically Critical Areas.

“With our wider seascape, we have already declared four Marine Protected Areas covering 6.20 percent of the total marine area of the country,” he said.

Shahab Uddin said Bangladesh have got a shining example of Swiss Development Cooperation to the cause of Biodiversity Conservation through the project "Community-based Sustainable Management of Tanguar Haor" implemented in three phases during 2006-2016 towards establishing a sustainable management system in the Ramsar wetland site of Tanguar Haor in North-Eastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh would highly appreciate and welcome Switzerland to revitalize its efforts towards enhancing resource mobilisation to an optimum level so that the country’s Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives could further be intensified to conserve and restore all the important ecosystems in the terrestrial and marine areas, he said.

The minister said Switzerland could further cooperate with Bangladesh in terms of technical, technological and financial resource mobilisation towards implementing development projects on concrete Adaptation and Resilience of the Community and Ecosystems, Biodiversity Conservation and Nature-based solutions, hazardous waste management, plastic management and introduction of circular economy.

Nathale Chuard said Switzerland's cooperation in the areas of biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation and mitigation activities would continue at a steady pace.

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Secretary Md Mostafa Kamal, Additional Secretary (Administration) Iqbal Abdullah Harun, Additional Secretary (Climate Change) Md Mizanul Hoque Chowdhury, Additional Secretary (Environment) Md Moniruzzaman and Additional Secretary (Development) Sanjay Kumar Bhowmik attended the meeting, among others.

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