Bangladesh seeks binding fund
No commentsCOPENHAGEN–Bangladesh is seeking legally binding contributions to a fund that would help poor and vulnerable countries cope with the impacts of climate change.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday in a meeting at UN climate talks in the Danish capital, “I do not want to go back with empty hands from here. I think no one wants to go back empty handed.”
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen hosted the meeting of developing countries, including a grouping of the world’s poorest countries, at climate talks here in the Danish capital.
Sheikh Hasina is seeking long-term adaptation funds as well as ‘fast-track’ money for Least Developed Countries together in a legally binding document.
“We should reach an agreement, at least framework agreement, which will be converted to a legally binding document by six months,” she told leaders from Asia and African countries.
State Minister for Environment Hasan Mahmud briefed reporters from Bangladesh after the meeting. He said Sheikh Hasina told leaders: “We must work on how we can reach a deal.”
The president of Senegal and prime ministers of Ethopia, Lesotho, Sudan and representatives from Saudi Arabia and the African Union were among those present at the meeting.
