$230 bn needed by 2030 to implement National Action Plan on climate change
Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shahab Uddin today (August 28) said Bangladesh requires USD 230 billion by 2030 to implement various activities to tackle climate change. Under the newly formed National Action Plan on Climate change, the minister said, a total of 113 types of activities were identified under eight thematic areas. Certainly, the government of Bangladesh will mobilise domestic resources to implement those activities, he said. "But, without international and bilateral support, it would be very difficult for us to implement and attain climate resilience," the minister said. We are looking forward to the USD 100 billion funding committed by the developed countries to tackle climate change. Shahab Uddin said this in the conference room of the ministry while a delegation led by British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson called on him. Britain will provide necessary assistance to Bangladesh in related activities to combat the effects of climate change, medical waste management and research, Dickson said.
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A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.