Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said that the government had planned to diversify the sources of energy and increase the dependency on renewable energy as the UK pledged to help Bangladesh having a “clean energy transition”.
“We planned to have around 40 percent renewable energy by 2041. We’ll be looking for more renewable energy and we’re asking for technology to support renewable energy,” he said at a joint briefing with British MP and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.
Sharma pledged to help Bangladesh having a “clean energy transition”.
“We can work together to make sure that it is not just the public finance but also private finance that is coming into Bangladesh”.
He arrived on Wednesday morning on a two-day visit ahead of the crucial UN climate change summit to be held in Glasgow in November. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam received him at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
He met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and attended "UK- Bangladesh Climate Partnership Roundtable" at the Foreign Service Academy before the joint briefing.
Bangladesh is a climate vulnerable country, though it has no contribution to the climate change process.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is also the leader of the Climate Vulnerable Countries (CVF) in the world.
During the visit, Sharma discussed the needs of the countries which are the most vulnerable to climate change, so that they are equipped to deal with its current and damaging effects ahead of COP26.
