Desk Report
Publish: 10 Nov 2021, 11:53 pm
COP President Alok Sharma || Photo: Collected
The UK will provide £120
million to Bangladesh for scaling up locally-led adaptation, expanding
renewable energy, tackling pollution and waste and developing and empowering
next generation of climate leaders.
On 9th November, COP President Alok Sharma announced how £165
million of UK funding will tackle climate change, including by addressing the
gender inequalities that make women and girls more vulnerable to climate
change, and by empowering women and girls to be leaders in climate action, a UK
High Commission press release said here today.
One of these new programmes is £120m for Bangladesh, from 2021
to 2027, it added.
This programme will help
deliver a more climate resilience, less carbon intensive and cleaner
Bangladesh.
It will help communities
cope with a variety of climate impacts through nature-based solutions, increase
share of renewable energy in the country's energy mix, reduce pollution and the
generation of hazardous waste from key industrial and municipal sources and
deliver greater investment, evidence, and leadership for climate action.
"Gender and climate
are profoundly intertwined. And we see it in terms of tackling climate change,
where we know our efforts are more effective when women and girls are at their
heart," Sharma said from COP26 in Glasgow.
Through its COP26 Presidency, the UK has been urging
countries to put gender equality at the heart of climate action, and on Gender
Day convened ministers and other actors to discuss new action to tackle gender
and climate change.
The programme will also strengthen the UK-Bangladesh climate
partnership by linking up centres of excellence on all aspects of climate
change, and sharing expertise, and technology as well as finance, to tackle
common challenges, said the release.
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