Environment Minister: International climate fund to be properly utilized

Newly appointed Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury has said transparency will be increased so that the international climate fund will be utilized properly.

“Maximum efforts will be made to bring the allocation from the International Loss and Damage Fund at the earliest. It will be ensured that the allocations received reach the affected people,” the minister said.

The minister said this after paying homage to the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi-32 on Friday morning.

The environment minister said: “True sustainable development is not possible without the development of the environment.  Therefore, the policies and ideals of Bangladesh must be implemented to protect the environment.”

“Environmental issues will be implemented on a priority basis in this election manifesto. The Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan will be implemented,” he added.

Saber Hossain Chowdhury took oath as the minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change at Bangabhaban Thursday evening.  While responding to the journalists, he expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Saber Hossain Chowdhury, before being appointed as Minister of Environment, was serving as the president of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and as the Special Envoy of Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for Environment and Climate Change.

Saber Hossain Chowdhury was first inducted to the cabinet as a deputy minister in 1999 in the Ministry of Shipping (with responsibility for Ports) and thereafter in the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (with responsibility for LGED)