Green activists at a seminar on Wednesday stressed building climate negotiation skills to get money from the global fund.
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies organised the event titled 鈥楪lobal Climate Negotiations: Challenges and Priorities for Bangladesh鈥� at its office in the capital鈥檚 Eskaton.
Addressing the seminar as chief guest, environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said that reaching the global climate fund would be challenging in the future due to the recent political changes in the developed world.
鈥楳any developed countries already denied science that supports climate change. They would not release any fund in the future,鈥� she said.
The country wanted to ensure the best use of its own fund on a priority basis, she said, adding that as a victim country, Bangladesh cannot wait for the global fund.
She asked all to set own political vision and own effort to eliminate climate effects.
鈥楤angladesh Climate Change Trust Fund has reduced fund release for embezzlement of the fund in improper projects. Only seven projects got approval at the last meeting,鈥� she said.
She noted that the guidelines for allocating the Climate Change Trust Fund had been updated, with funds distributed more cautiously than ever.
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation deputy managing director Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed said that developing countries were given high rate loan instead of grants as there was no acceptable universal definition of climate finance.
He said that developed countries committed developing countries to releasing funds but they hardly released the committed fund.
Jahangirnagar University professor Sharmind Neelormi said that being one of the most vulnerable countries Bangladesh should set example for best practices.
BIISS chairman ambassador AFM Gousal Azam Sarker presided over the event where, among others, BIISS director general Major General Iftekhar Anis, senior research fellow Sufia Khanom, Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage at UNFCCC executive committee member M Hafijul Islam Khan spoke.
