City Desk :
Speakers at a workshop on Tuesday said Bangladesh must have a “definite and transparent” system of calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
The national workshop on ‘Transition to Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF): The Way Forward for Bangladesh’ was held at Bangabandhu Military Museum in Dhaka, reports UNB.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) jointly organised the workshop under the ‘Climate Promise – From Pledge to Impact’ project
The key objective of the workshop was to engage sectoral experts and relevant ministries and line agencies in a dialogue to explore opportunities, identify human and institutional capacity needs enhancement to establish transparent GHG accounting and tracking mechanism.
Welcoming the participants Arif Faisal, Programme Specialist, UNDP said ensuring transparency in GHG inventory is crucial for upholding environmental integrity within the Paris Agreement.
Article 13 of the Paris Agreement shapes the formation of the ETF, intending to foster mutual trust and confidence as well as enhancing effective implementation, he said.
UNDP will continue to provide catalytic support to the govt to establish a robust institutional arrangement for advancing ETF, he added.