Bangladesh joins global forum P4G

Bangladesh has joined the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G), which was officially announced on Monday at an event in New York on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), reports UNB.

Indonesia and South Africa also joined the forum on Tuesday, along with Bangladesh.

Other P4G partner countries are Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Vietnam.

In his speech marking Bangladesh's inclusion in this prestigious global Forum on Green Growth, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M ShahriarAlam said P4G would provide much needed new and innovative approaches and business models for Bangladesh's transition from the LDC to middle-income country.

He highlighted the ensuing economic opportunities in Bangladesh, where P4G could play a pivotal role in creating the platform to provide access to technology, market, and sustainable finance including making available expertise, and best practices from the partner countries.

The P4G was launched in 2018, with the ambition of becoming the world's leading forum for developing concrete public-private partnerships on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka on Tuesday.

P4G brings together government, business and civil society organisations in innovating partnerships to advance solutions to help meet humanity's greatest needs in five key areas: food and agriculture (SDG2), clean water and sanitation (SDG6), affordable clean energy (SDG7), sustainable cities (SDG11) and circular economy (SDG12).