Tk 52cr adaptation, mitigation projects
December 31, 2009
Five projects worth Tk 52 crore were endorsed at a meeting of Climate Change Trustee Board of the ministry of environment and forests yesterday as part of the country’s internal actions on combating climate change impacts.
The ministry’s trustee board also approved instituting a climate change unit to coordinate programmes on mitigation and adaptation, said a press release.
The projects include strengthening institutional capacity of climate change unit, making ship-breaking yards environment-friendly, sapling breeding for country-wide massive afforestation, coastal afforestation along the embankments and in char areas.
The ministry will implement the projects during the current fiscal.
Other projects also include waste management in Dhaka’s Gulshan, Baridhara and Dhanmondi areas and Nasirabad and Khulshi areas in Chittagong through reduction, reuse and recycle (3R) method.
Environment Secretary Dr Mihir Kanti Majumdar later told The Daily Star that the ambassador of the Netherlands in Dhaka has expressed interests in funding a study on how to make the ship-breaking yards environment-friendly.
“The financial offer for ship-recycling facility is with several million dollars,” he said.
The climate unit will coordinate the actions by 12 climate cells attached with as many ministries. The ministry will appoint manpower for the unit in a week.
State Minister for Forests and Environment Hasan Mahmud presided over the meeting where Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, State Minister for Water Resources Mahbubur Rahman and State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury.
Finance Secretary Dr Mohammad Tareq, Food Secretary Mokhlesur Rahman and Additional Secretary to Cabinet Division Tariqul Islam were also present.
Source: thedailystar.net
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