Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Md Shahab Uddin has left for Italy to participate in the pre-COP 26 consultation meeting to be held in Milan, Italy.
The minister left Dhaka at the invitation of Italian Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani to attend the meeting scheduled to be held from September 30 to October 3, said a statement of the ministry on Wednesday.
Environment Minister Shahab Uddin is leading a three-member Bangladesh delegation.
The other members of the delegation are A Shamim Al Razi, Additional Secretary (Development) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Bangladesh Focal Point of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and Md Ziaul Haque, Director of the Department of Environment.
Apart from the pre-COP-26 consultation meeting, the environment minister will also meet the CVF Secretariat and representatives of other countries to discuss COP-26 preparations.
The meeting, scheduled to be held a month before the Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, Scotland, will make a significant contribution to tackling the global challenge of climate change, the release added.
In the meeting, the environment minister will discuss the possible solutions to the problems related to climate change with the ministers of different countries.
Moreover, as Bangladesh is the President of CVF, the environment minister will get an opportunity to deliver speeches on behalf of CVF at the conference. After attending the conference, the Minister will leave Milan for Bangladesh on October 4.
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