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Address climate change concerns in govt policies

Experts tell a workshop


FE REPORT | January 21, 2022 00:00:00


Experts at a workshop on Thursday stressed the need for considering the adverse impacts of climate change while formulating government policies to ensure sustainable development of the country.

Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable nations of the world, they said at a national level stakeholder consultation with ministries and departments under the Formulation and Advancement of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in Bangladesh Project.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) jointly organised the virtual programme.

The project is being implemented by a consortium of the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER) of BRAC University, BCAS and ICCCAD, led by Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS).

The workshop was organised to mobilise experts' opinion and recommendations on identified adaptation strategies and measures to finalise and prioritise those measures for preparing the draft NAP.

The overall objective of the project is to formulate the NAP and its integration into the national development process and plan.

Mizanul Haque Chowdhury, additional secretary, MoEFCC and National Project Director, NAP Formulation Project, said that the NAP will be aligned with SDGs, NAPA, LDC, 8th FYP, Delta Plan and other nationally and internationally important documents.

He emphasised on homegrown adaptation and Nature-based-Solution (NbS) for NAP.

He also assured that all input and expert feedback, gathered after active participation from all participants from different ministries and departments, will be incorporated and addressed in the NAP.

Team Leader of the project Prof Dr Ainun Nishat spoke about the six goals, seven principles and vision of NAP while discussing the risks of climate vulnerable regions of Bangladesh.

Malik Fida A Khan, Executive Director, CEGIS said his organisation has performed analysis of climate anomalies, scenarios and impacts through using latest IPCC AR6 ensemble data and simulating different developed models of CEGIS to quantify impacts and vulnerabilities which are possible.

The consultation workshop, however, was segmented into different sessions including livestock, agriculture, water and disaster, urban and infrastructure, ecology and biodiversity, fisheries.

The experts emphasised on water sensitive urban development plan, inclusion of poor marginal people into NAP, dedicated climate impact assessment framework for mainstreaming, private sector engagement, ocean dynamics analysis and extensive research on land, ocean and atmospheric changes to understand local climate change scenarios.

Mirza Shawkat Ali, Director (Climate Change), Department of Environment, delivered the introductory speech while Deputy Secretary of Economic Relations Division Mahbub Alam and A K M Azad Rahman, Programme Specialist at UNDP also spoke among others.

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