Bangladesh has emphasized justice, ambition and urgent global solidarity in the face of escalating climate impacts at COP30 in Brazil’s Belém.
Speaking at a moment when the world grapples with irreversible climate damage and a profound trust deficit in multilateralism, Mohammad Navid Shafiullah, additional secretary, climate change, of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, reminded delegates on Tuesday that for Bangladesh, climate change was not an abstract threat but a daily reality.
Extreme temperatures, cyclones, floods, sea-level rise and riverbank erosion continue to displace millions, undermine biodiversity and push vulnerable communities to the brink.
He added that Bangladesh confronted extreme climate events while simultaneously bearing the humanitarian burden of the Rohingya crisis—demonstrating how climate, conflict and displacement multiply pressured on vulnerable nations.
Despite contributing less than 0.5 per cent of global emissions, Bangladesh has chosen leadership over despair.
Shafiullah highlighted that the country was advancing NDC 3.0, aligned with the global stocktake outcome, targeting 25pc of electricity generation from renewables by 2035—five times higher than the current level.
‘Bangladesh is operationalizing its national adaptation plan and investing heavily in locally led adaptation,’ he noted.
