Environment, forest, and climate change minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said that the government would reform the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust to strengthen its role in achieving climate resilience.
鈥楢dditionally, steps are being taken to secure BCCT鈥檚 registration as a Direct Access Entity to the Green Climate Fund,鈥� he revealed the information during a meeting held at the Bangladesh secretariat in Dhaka on Thursday.
The meeting focused on preparations for the 29th Conference of the Parties to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, a ministry press release said on Friday.
Saber Hossain stressed the need for taking preparation for COP29 to advocate adaptation finance and loss and damage finance.
He also put emphasis on development of a comprehensive country position paper to effectively represent Bangladesh.
Collaboration with the United Nations, GCF and other international alliances for organising joint sidelines events at COP29 was also highlighted during the meeting.
Tapan Kumar Biswas, acting managing director of BCCT, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, joint secretary (climate change), Dharitri Kumar Sarkar, deputy secretary, Fazle Rabbi Sadek Ahmed, deputy managing director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation, and Mirza Shaukat Ali, director (climate change and international conventions), and Md Ziaul Haque, director (air quality management) of the Department of Environment, among others, were present at the meeting.
The Bangladesh delegation, which recently participated in the 60th Subsidiary Body meeting in Bonn, Germany, briefed the minister on its outcomes.