Bangladesh committed to cut carbon emissions by 21.85% by 2030: FBCCI

09 Dec '22

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Despite being one of the lowest carbon emitters globally, Bangladesh is committed to cut carbon emissions by 89.47 million tonnes, or 21.85 per cent, by 2030, Mohammad Jashim Uddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) told a roundtable at the Commonwealth Trade & Investment Summit in London recently .

To reach the target, Bangladesh will cut 96.1 per cent of emissions from the energy sector, which includes power, transport, industry, households, commercial, agriculture, brick kilns and fugitive emissions, he said.

The rest will be reduced from agriculture and livestock, forestry and municipal solid waste and wastewater, Jashim Uddin was quoted as saying by a FBCCI release.

Dhaka is working with the private sector to implement environment-friendly industrialisation, he said.

Bangladesh's current contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and share of carbon emissions are just 0.4 per cent and 0.09 per cent respectively—not significant, Jashim Uddin said.

Bangladesh has a national action plan ready on climate change that requires $230 billion over the next 27 years till 2050 with 113 interventions with 90 high-priority ones, he added.

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