Hasina renews pledge to low-carbon, climate-resilient dev

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed her commitment to low-carbon, climate-resilient development while urging the large carbon-emitting countries to reciprocate the robust commitments of countries like Bangladesh.
She announced that Bangladesh would never exceed the average per capita carbon emitted by the developing world, according to a news agency.
The prime minister was speaking at the intervention of the Retreat Session of the 10th ASEM Summit meeting on the second and last day Friday at Milan, Italy.
Hasina also conveyed Bangladesh’s concern over the huge gap between the commitments of the developed world and their initiatives to fulfil those commitments.
The prime minister said, despite being a climate-vulnerable LDC, Bangladesh was forced to divert its development budget for adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
Increasing intensity and frequency of flooding, storm surge, salinity intrusion and the changes induced by climate change were badly affecting our coastal habitat, she added.
The Bangladesh leader mentioned that if the world community was not determined about climate “mitigation”, adaptation costs would be much higher than it was estimated today.
She said Bangladesh already learnt much on adaptation front and it was ready to share its modest experience on climate resilience.