Bangladesh on the second day of UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, demanded that an International Adaptation Centre under UN framework be set up in Dhaka. The centre would research on how to adapt to climate change.

Bangladesh placed its demands at the vision sharing meeting of G-77 on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs) yesterday.

The Bangladesh delegation said climate change funding, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), must be in addition to the existing official development assistant (ODA) commitments of 0.7 percent of gross national product (GNP).

Bangladesh's proposal also stated that current arrangement of responsibility-based mechanism must be revised to make contributions of developed countries mandatory.

The Bangladesh delegation also asked for developing a mechanism, with the help of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to create an index on the vulnerability of people in each country to climate change.

Bangladesh demanded creation of an effective environment for climate-change adaptation, nationally, regionally and internationally with the support of appropriate institutions.

"We proposed the setting up of the head office of the International Adaptation Centre in Dhaka," said a government official representing Bangladesh. However, all parties attending the conference have to agree on this.

Bangladesh demanded a long-term global goal on the climate change issue. Its proposals also said the goal should be made according to the undertakings of developed countries on emission cuts, technology transfer, finance and capacity building.

Md Reazuddin, director technical of the department of environment, presented the proposal at the meeting.

Meanwhile, Oxfam International in a report yesterday estimated that more than $50 billion could be raised each year if developed countries buy, in auction, the right to only 7.5 percent of their emission units.

The money should be handed to a new multilateral adaptation-finance mechanism under the UNFCC. Oxfam yesterday released the report called "Turning Carbon into Gold" which also suggested that other new finance mechanisms in the aviation and shipping sectors could generate another $28 billion.

Around 9,000 participants including government officials, NGO workers, scientists, and journalists from 190 countries gathered in Poznan to attend the two-week-long conference.