Government changes name of the Ministry of Environment

The name of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has officially been changed to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

The name was approved by the cabinet at a meeting in the Secretariat on Monday presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told the media that the name change proposal had been submitted before. The government agreed to add ‘Climate Change’ along to the name following an agreement with neighbouring countries.  

Form now, the name of the ministry will be ‘Poribesh, Bon o Jolbayu Poribartan’ in Bangla and ‘Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change’ in English.

On Aug 6, 2017, the decision of the change was passed at 4th meeting of the National Environment Committee.

The new name will be effective after a notification signed by the Bangladesh president is issued.  

Bangladesh is one of the countries most at risk from the climate change. 

Global warming is one of the biggest challenges for Bangladesh. Researchers believe that if it continues a large amount of land will be covered by water and approximately 2 billion people around the world could be displaced.     

Since coming to power in 2009, the Awami League government has created two separate climate change alleviation funds.

The funds are named Bangladesh Climate Change Trust (BCCT) and Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF).