UNDP to give $8.75m for climate change adaptation

UNDP to provide US$ 8.75 million to save Bangladesh's coastal areas from the adverse impact of climate change in three separate projects.

The projects are part of the Bangladesh's national programme of United Nations' collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), reports BSS.

To this end, UNDP Bangladesh, Economic Relations Division (ERD) and Ministry of Environment and Forests Wednesday struck deals for the projects at the ERD in city's Sher-e-Banglanagar.

UNDP country director Pauline Tamesis, additional secretary of ERD M Ashadul Islam and additional secretary of Environment and Forest Ministry Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury put pen on the the documents on behalf of their respective organisations.

The three high officials signed projects aimed at building Bangladesh's capacity to access climate finance through the REDD+ mechanism and national capacity building to implement Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements.

As part of this aim the first project will help the government of Bangladesh to overcome climate risk management barriers through a matching set of complementary measures in reducing the vulnerability of communities to the adverse impacts of climate change in the coastal zone through a number of participatory and community-based programmes.

The second project in partnership with FAO will support the government of Bangladesh in initiating the implementation of the REDD+ Readiness Roadmap by establishing necessary REDD+ management processes, identifying strategic readiness options for completing its National REDD+ strategy, and developing the capacities required to begin implementation of REDD+.