Climate change: Bangladesh want grants, not credit

Bangladesh won’t receive any sort of credit to tackle bad impacts of climate change. Developed and industrialist countries must have to give grants and not via World Bank or other creditors.

Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on environment and forest ministry, said on Thursday while he was speaking at a press briefing at the media centre of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban after the committee meeting.

He said though an agreement was finalized at Paris Conference, action plan on the procedures of offering indemnification will be set at Marocco conference.

Bangladesh must play an important role there and submit a specific proposal on behalf of most vulnerable countries.

In the definition of ‘Refugee’, climate refugee had been excluded. It must be included as the number of climate refugees is increasing in Bangladesh, he added.

The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) will be held in Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18 November 2016.