Climate Finance in Bangladesh: Ongoing Challenges
By Merylyn Hedger, Institute of Development Studies, Overseas Development Institute
Opinion No 8 – March 2011
Despite progress, there is still work to do on climate change adaptation programmes in Bangladesh. Bangladesh as a Least Developed Country (LDC), is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change due its extreme environmental vulnerability to climate hazards. Since the first NAPA (1995) there have been a series of policy and institutional changes undertaken by the Government. There is a widespread awareness the dangers that climate change poses for economic growth. Since 2008, Bangladesh has its Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) which provides an overall framework for action on adaptation. Bangladesh shows a positive expansion of effort on climate funding: by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), and donors, notably the EU and its member states, particularly the UK.
Challenges to implementation of action on climate change for donors, for Government and for civil society arise from funding, monitoring and planning constraints. Read the full paper.
Climate Finance in Bangladesh: Ongoing Challenges (Bangla translation)
By Merylyn Hedger, Institute of Development Studies, Overseas Development Institute
translated into Bangla by Fatema Begum Labony