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The Climate Change Strategic Plan for the Disaster Management Sector envisions building communities that are resilient to disasters caused by climatic hazards. The Strategic Plan's specific purposes are to promote the relationship between Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Action, to promote attention on disaster risk management by focusing on vulnerabilities, poverty and the causes of disasters, show the benefits of promoting capacities in adapting to climate change, promote management of unprecedented events and uncertainty of climate change.
Public interest litigants argued that a government flood action plan would adversely affect more than 1 million people in the Tangail district. The court upheld the plan, but it also held that the constitutional right to life in Bangladesh encompassed “protection and preservation of environment, ecological balance free from pollution of air and water, and sanitation without which life can hardly be enjoyed."
The case challenges plans to build a coal-based thermal power station in the Sundarbans, described as the world's largest mangrove forest and listed as a World Heritage site. While a Rule Nisi was issued, the case has not progressed.
The case involved a commercial complex which was built on portions of two natural bodies of water in Dhaka. The court found that the water bodies played a pivotal role in keeping Dhaka safe from water logging and flooding. It upheld the decision directing the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association to demolish its illegally constructed building.
The Perspective Plan of Bangladesh 2021-2041 has the underpinning vision of Bangladesh becoming a High-Income Economy, and having zero poverty by 2041. These will be achieved through, among others, good governance, macroeconomic stability, creating an innovative economy, and managing environment and climate change for sustainable growth.
The main objectives of the National Agriculture Policy 2018 are to ensure food security and improve socioeconomic conditions of people. These shall be achieved by increasing productivity and production of crops, farmers' income, crop diversification, ensuring nutritious and safe food production, improving marketing system, and ensuring profitable agriculture and efficient utilization of natural resources.
The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) is the basic instrument for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level. It was prepared in order to fulfill the commitments of Bangladesh towards the objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity, namely conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.
The Act provides for the conservation of biodiversity, its sustainable use and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the utilization of genetic resources. It promotes research on biodiversity and biological resources – leading towards biotechnological inventions and their commercial utilization.
The Declaration of the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment, known as the Stockholm Declaration, was the culmination of the UN Conference on the Human Environment. Among the principles declared by the instrument provides that humans have "fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well being."
The Conference Declaration of the First World Climate Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979, recognizes that it is now "urgently necessary" for the nations around the world to take advantage of a man's present knowledge of climate to take steps to improve significantly that knowledge, and to foresee and to prevent potential man-made changes in climate that might be adverse to the well-being of humanity. Among the conclusions is that there is an immediate need for nations to utilize existing knowledge of climate and climatic variations in the planning for social and economic development.