Despite strong national policies and budget allocations on climate change and gender equality, Bangladesh is struggling to translate these measures into tangible benefits for climate-vulnerable women, said experts at a roundtable yesterday.

People living in climate-vulnerable areas urgently need government support

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared her intention to make Bangladesh graduate from being a Least Developed Country (LDC) within the next few years and the government has already formally notified the United Nations of this intent.

Over the last decade in Bangladesh, we have spent almost a billion US dollars on several hundred projects and activities to tackle climate change.