Dhaka seeks greater weather collaboration
Bangladesh Large Commissioner to the united kingdom Saida Muna Tasneem has saidBangladesh looks forwards to creating greater collaboration and connectivity between the Commonwealth and its Environment Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Presidency.
She mentioned the leadership of Primary Minister Sheikh Hasina, specifically in building climate resilience post-Covid approaches for the Commonwealth Weather Vulnerable Countries, studies UNB.
The Large Commissioner was supplying a briefing on Bangladesh's Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Financing Ministers Presidency at the Commonwealth Plank of Governors extraordinary meeting on post-Covid strategies in London recently.
She also proposed for a CVF-Commonwealth leaders high-level meeting at the upcoming Kigali Commonwealth Heads of Federal government Getting together with (CHOGM) in Rwanda in June 2021, said the Bangladesh Large Commission on Monday.
The Large Commissioner said Bangladesh also takes satisfaction in hosting the South Asian Regional Office of Global Focus on Adaptation (GCA) in Dhaka jointly inaugurated on September 8 by Primary Minister Sheikh Hasina and Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the US and Chair of GCA to accelerate climate adaptation actions and solutions in South Asia.
Tasneem highlighted a few of Bangladesh's CVF Presidency priorities, including reducing climate vulnerability, 1.5 degrees campaign, financing for NDCs, scale-up loss and destruction efforts, and linkages between climate change, human rights, and displacement.
She also informed the 54 member Commonwealth Table of Governors that in post-Covid times Bangladesh would continue steadily to play a leadership role as the Commonwealth's business-to-business connectivity cluster lead, to specially promote digital marketplaces and creation of a Commonwealth B-2-B connection hub to market intra-Commonwealth trade for all products, particularly in PPEs, antiviral medicines, therapeutics and medical apparatus produced in Bangladesh and other Commonwealth countries.
High Commissioner Tasneem needed vaccine multilateralism and called upon the global vaccine research institutions and manufacturers to provide licensing rights for manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines simply by the countries like Bangladesh that is WTO TRIPS Arrangement exempted in the pharmaceuticals sector.
Bangladesh was first highly praised by the Commonwealth Secretary Standard and several Commonwealth High Commissioners because of its manufacturing successes in PPE and antiviral medications in the post-Covid global market.
