Bangladesh sets up climate change fund

 

원본 기사 : http://www.gulf-times.com/story/572686/Bangladesh-sets-up-climate-change-fund

 

Bangladesh has constituted a trust fund with its own finance for facing the risks of climate change

without waiting for foreign assistance.

“Bangladesh is facing the impact of climate change but we will no more look for foreign assistance

and the government has already formed a trust fund to face the situation,”

Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain Manju said at the opening of the green convention

and exhibition at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BCCI) in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Ltd (BIFFL), a government-owned non-banking financial institution,

organised the event to create awareness about the adverse impact of chimney-based brick kiln pollution

and promote environment friendly and energy saving technologies in the country.

Manju said the government has been working to create awareness among the people

to prevent environment pollution. 
“Many factories and brick manufacturers are not complying with government’s rules and regulations,”

he said, adding that the government is encouraging people in industrial sector to comply with

the rules and regulation through BIFFL.

BFFL director and secretary of economic relations division Kazi Shafiqul Azam chaired the opening session

while Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir, World Bank’s country director Qimiao Fan,

alternative executive director to Asian Development Bank (ADB) Mahbub Ahmed,

Chinese embassy commercial councillor Li Guangjun and Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan,

among others, spoke on the occasion.

BB Governor Kabir said banks have been given necessary instruction not to give loans to factories

which are not complying with the government’s rules and regulations for saving the environment from pollution. 
Side by side, banks have been asked to spend 10% of their funds kept for corporate social 
responsibility (CSR) programmes. 

World Bank’s country director Qimiao Fan said the coastal belt of Bangladesh is facing the risk of climate change

and the World Bank has a plan to spend $2bn in the next three years for facing this risk.

 

 

대개 개발도상국들은 기후변화 관련 프로젝트를 수행하기 위해 선진국들이 국제기구에 기여금으로

낸 기금을 지원을 받는데, 방글라데시는 그러한 해외 기금을 지원받지 않고 스스로 기금을 만들어서

기후변화에 대처하려는 내용입니다. 방글라데시에서 일어나는 기후변화의 악영향을 줄이기 위해서 입니다.

 

해외 원조를 받지 않고 자국의 자금으로 운영하려는 이유는 기사에 나와있지 않지만 

아마 자금의 전달 속도와 불확실성 때문일 것입니다. 해외로부터 기금을 받기 위해서는 (주로 기후기금 국제기구) 

프로젝트에 대한 철저한 계획을 만들고, 허가를 받아야 하는데 이 과정의 속도가 당연히

직접 만든 기금보다 훨씬 느릴 것이고, 계획을 만들어서 제출해도 그 계획이 허가를 받을 것이라는

보장이 없기 때문입니다.

 

방글라데시 정부는 BIFFL을 설립함으로써, 현재 정부가 만든 환경 규율과 법을 잘 지키지 않는

공장들과 회사들이 미래에는 그 규율들과 법을 더욱 잘 따르는 것에 기여를 할 것으로 기대하고 있습니다.

 

이러한 모습은 방글라데시 정부의 적극적인 기후변화 대응의 측면에서는 다른 개발도상국들이 선도적으로

배워야 할 자세이지만, 기후변화 기금 관련 국제기구들의 더욱 빠르고 효과적인 프로젝트의 검토 방법을

고안하는 것도 고려해봄직 하다는 것이 이 기사의 교훈이라고 생각합니다. 

 

 

기사 및 사진 출처 : Rahman, M. (2017, November 27). Bangladesh sets up climate change fund. Gulf times. Retrieved from http://www.gulf-times.com/story/572686/Bangladesh-sets-up-climate-change-fund