(This article was originally published here) Malnutrition in Bangladesh may have reduced significantly in the past 20 years, but more than 41% of its young children remain stunted due to chronic undernutrition. According to the World Food Programme, poor nutrition ultimately costs the country more than $1bn in lost productivity every year. Worryingly, the human…
(This article was originally published here) The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF) is the first ever national climate fund established by a Least Developed Country (LDC) and is an example to other countries for institutionalising national climate finance. The BCCTF funds programs and projects from the national budget to help communities recover and become…
(This article was originally published here) The world’s least developed countries (LDCs) have been recognised as needing financial and technological support to adapt to climate change under Article 4.9 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). LDCs have to prepare themselves to adapt to, and build resilience to, climate change impacts. Adaptation is…
Over the last decade, Bangladesh has spent over half-a-billion US dollars on hundreds of projects to tackle climate change. Thousands of people within and outside government have started to climb up the knowledge ladder from the first rung which was to understand the nature of the risk to each locality and each stakeholder group. The…