Bangladesh calls for commitment, action for gender-equal world, curbing emissions
Bangladesh has called for sincere commitments and urgent actions to fight climate change and ensure a gender-equal sustainable world. State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatunnesa Indira made the call while delivering statement during the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN headquarters in New York today. The theme of this year's CSW-66 general debate is "Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes." The state-minister led a five-member delegation with the representatives from Ministry of Women & Children Affairs, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to the session. She shed lights on the climate vulnerability and disaster risks in Bangladesh and highlighted its disproportionate impacts on women and girls. Fazilatunnesa Indira stated that Bangladesh ranks 7th in the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, although the country's contribution to global emissions is less than 0.47 percent. She enumerated various government policies, laws, and projects aimed at ensuring gender-responsive climate action, adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction.
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