Time to ramp up investment in adaptation to climate change

Source(s): Daily Star, the - Bangladesh

By Saleemul Huq

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There are two upcoming parallel but connected processes and events that offer an opportunity for ramping up investment in adaptation globally.

The first is the climate change summit called by the secretary general of the United Nations to be held in New York in September, where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh is one of the key invitees on the resilience and adaptation track of the summit. This track is being led by the UK and Egypt and also includes Bangladesh together with Malawi and the Netherlands. The UNSG has asked leaders to come with “plans not speeches” and this will be a great opportunity for Bangladesh to speak not only for itself but also for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) which have asked Bangladesh to speak on their behalf.

The second process is the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) which has three high-level commissioners (namely Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva of the World Bank) and around 20 others. The GCA will produce a flagship report on global adaptation for the summit and then continue to support the action tracks from the report for another year after the summit is over.

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