High-Level Launch of GCA South Asia

GCA South Asia will work with and support South Asian governments, city mayors, business leaders, investors, communities and civil society in accelerating and scaling effective adaptation solutions to tackle the climate emergency. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2019 countries in South Asia are among the most vulnerable globally to the impacts of climate change. Bangladesh was the first country in the world to create a National Adaptation Program of Action and is the current Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum and Vulnerable Group of Twenty (V20) Ministers of Finance.

Event description:

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, launched the Global Center on Adaptation’s new regional office in Dhaka, GCA Bangladesh, with Ban Ki-moon, Chair of the Global Center on Adaptation and 8th Secretary General of the United Nations and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte. The virtual launch event was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the founding father of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Lecturers:

Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Mark Rutte

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary General of the United Nations
Co-Chair of Global Center on Adaptation

Feike Sijebesma

Co-Chair of Global Center on Adaptation

Patrick Verkooijen

CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation

Malik Amin Aslam

Minister for Climate Change, Pakistan

Shakti Bahadur Basnet

Minister of Forests and Environment, Nepal

Dr Hussain Rasheed Hassan

Minister of Environment, Maldives

Lyonpo Tandi Dorji

Foreign Minister, National Environment Commission, Bhutan

Sh. Babul

Minister of State for Environment, India