DHAKA, Sept 24, 2019 (BSS) – Bangladesh has joined the Partnering for Green
Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G).
It was officially announced on Monday at an event, attended by State
Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, held in New York on the sidelines
of the 74th UN General Assembly, a press release said here today. At the
event Alam said the prestigious global Forum on Green Growth like P4G would
provide much needed new and innovative approaches and business models for
Bangladesh transition from the LDC (Least Developed Country) to middle income
country.
Indonesia and South Africa also joined the forum along with Bangladesh.
Other P4G partner countries are Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Mexico, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Vietnam.
P4G was launched in 2018, with the ambition of becoming the world’s leading
forum for developing concrete public-private partnerships on the UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate
Change.
P4G brings together government, business and civil society organisations in
innovate partnerships to advance solutions to help meet humanity’s greatest
needs in five key areas – food and agriculture (SDG2), clean water and
sanitation (SDG6), affordable clean energy (SDG7), sustainable cities (SDG11)
and circular economy (SDG12), added the release.