Youth for NDCs and its partners recently handed over a document titled ‘NDC 3.0 for COP30 – Stakeholder Recommendations’ to Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan at a ceremony held at Pani Bhaban in the capital. The recommendations, prepared ahead of Bangladesh’s submission of its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the UNFCCC, set out 14 actionable proposals in four priority areas: energy, agriculture, forestry and urbanization. Receiving the recommendations, Rizwana Hasan said the young generation can feel the urgency of the climate crisis more strongly than others and will face the greatest impacts in the years to come. She emphasized values, honesty, and long-term thinking in addressing climate change. ‘Governments often become comfortable in their own policy processes.
that’s why initiatives emerging from society, especially youth are so important,’ she noted.