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UNDP to support 3 projects on climate change

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 28 May 2015

Staff Reporter :UNDP Bangladesh, Economic Relations Division and Ministry of Environment and Forests signed three project documents on Wednesday worth $ 8.75 million to safeguard Bangladesh from the adverse impact of climate change in the coastal areas. These projects are part of the Bangladesh’s national programme of United Nations’ collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation [REDD]. The signing ceremony was held at the Economic Relations Division office in Agargaon. UNDP Country Director Pauline Tamesis, Additional Secretary of the Economic Relations Division Md. Ashadul Islam and Additional Secretary Ministry of Environment & Forest Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury signed the documents on behalf of their respective organizations.The three projects aim at building Bangladesh’s capacity to access climate finance through the REDD+ mechanism and national capacity building to implement Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements.As part of this aim, the first project will help the Government of Bangladesh overcome climate risk management barriers through a matching set of complementary measures in reducing the vulnerability of communities to the adverse impacts of climate change in the coastal zone through a number of participatory and community-based programmes.The second project in partnership with FAO will support the Government of Bangladesh in initiating the implementation of the REDD+ Readiness Roadmap by establishing necessary REDD+ management processes, identifying strategic readiness options for completing its National REDD+ strategy, and developing the capacities required to begin implementation of REDD+.Finally the third project on capacity development for implementing Rio Conventions on Climate Change will help strengthen Bangladesh’s capacity in implementing and managing Rio Convention obligations. The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The Programme was launched in 2008 and built on the convening role and technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).