Achieving the 2021 Vision for Bangladesh

To achieve the target of becoming a middle income country by 2021, it is crucial for Bangladesh to integrate all aspects of climate change into its planning and delivery of services to the citizens and ecosystems. There is an absolute need to strengthen the Ministry of Environment and Forests with appropriate expertise to address the high level of pollution and its related industrial, legal and implementation management issues, agriculture, land, and social management issues, afforestation and conservation of ecosystems, and water-related issues of marine systems, static and flow, etc. The government, along with general population, must be increasingly conscious about these matters.

Intaz Ali

University of Dhaka