Land, Forests, and Wetlands to Be Included in the New NDC to Address Climate Mitigation: Syeda Rizwana Hasan
Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, has announced that the new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) will include land, forests, and wetlands to strengthen climate mitigation efforts. However, she highlighted several complex challenges, such as deforestation and land degradation, in achieving the NDC goals. She emphasized the need to adopt environmentally sustainable and inclusive practices to overcome these hurdles.
The Advisor made these remarks as the Chief Guest at a seminar titled “Challenges in Planning and Implementing Carbon Emission Reductions from Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use under Bangladesh’s NDC,” held at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on Tuesday, 24 December.
She also stated that forest recovery opera...