Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju has said that Bangladesh would play an active role in raising the climate change issues in the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to find a solution to this fast spreading problem.
"We are already playing a significant role in implementing the decisions taken in the Paris conference last year," said the environment and forests minister ahead of the world climate conference to be held in Marrakech, Morocco, next week.
This year the COP 22 parties would begin implementation of the Paris Agreement, signed and ratified by the member states.
"We have submitted 39 climate change related projects in the planning ministry to be negotiated at the ERD. Some 27 projects were submitted for Green Climate Fund globally, of which one Bangladeshi project was approved in the Climate Change Fund worth of $ 80 million," Anwar Hossain Manju said.
He said the Green Climate Fund was raised to $ 10.4 billion, of which 27 projects involving $1.2 billion were submitted, adding, "the COP 22, is an initiative of United Nations and climate change issue is a problem for the world, not only for Bangladesh," according to a news agency
