<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the world major economies should exercise honesty about climate change to avoid impending crisis.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We expect the world’s major economies to remain honest about climate change and do their fair share to avert the impending crisis," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister made the remarks in a" High Level Thematic Session of Climate Ambition Summit on “Delivering Climate Justice: Accelerating Ambition and Implementation on Adaptation and Early Warnings for All" at ECOSOC Chamber here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She arrived in New York on September 17 to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier said Bangladesh’s experience demonstrated that investing in adaptation and early warning makes perfect sense.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We hope our development partners will seize these opportunities to deliver climate justice," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh has joined this session to lend support to two initiatives by the UN secretary general.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a climate justice advocate, she said Bangladesh stands ready to align with any constructive move that advances the agenda.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said that Bangladesh has requested the UN system to conduct a table-top exercise on nation-wide earthquake modeling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said they are working on Bangladesh's second satellite, Bangabandhu II, as an Earth Observatory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bangladesh is willing to share its expertise with other vulnerable countries through South-South and triangular cooperation," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She also expressed her hope that “early warnings for all” will be able to encourage MDBs and IFIs to join such efforts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier mentioned that Bangladesh had reduced fatalities to a single digit compared to the millions that perished during the Bhola Cyclone in 1970.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We have one of the world’s largest community volunteer programmes comprising 65,000 coastal people," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh's latest National Plan for Disaster Management has adopted an integrated multi-hazard early warning approach, the prime minister said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We are using mobile technology to provide regular updates on weather forecasts," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thematic Ambassador of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Saima Wazed was present. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>