<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership (BCDP) has been created to synchronise with the international stakeholders to face the climate change impacts in their global programmes.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">This BCDP will work with the stakeholders, developed countries and international organisations and fund programmes to mitigate the climate change issues, she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this on Monday while Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Simon Steele called on her at a bilateral meeting room at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a release from PM’s Press Wing the prime minister said that Bangladesh is taking long-term programmes to tackle the impacts of climate change. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She briefly described various adaptation and mitigation programmes of Bangladesh including Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to face the adverse impacts of climate change.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Hasina said that due to the adverse impacts of the climate change Bangladesh is often facing various types of cyclones, heavy rain and heatwaves.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We are encouraging social movement for forestation, created 84000 volunteers and build multipurpose cyclone shelters,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She also said that researchers in Bangladesh have invented saline, flood and drought resilient rice varieties.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheikh Hasina also said that from June next tree plantation programmes will be started across the country during the rainy season.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>