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National Committee on Climate Change

parliamentary_committee · partial (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
Tarique Rahman
Role
Prime Minister (ex-officio Chair)
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
2009
Legal basis
Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009 (BCCSAP 2009), approved by the Cabinet; functionally underpinned by the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Act, 2010 (Act No. LVII of 2010) which operationalised the BCCTF under the committee's broad oversight. No standalone enabling statute for the committee itself has been publicly documented; it derives authority from the government's institutional rules and the BCCSAP mandate.

Bangladesh submitted NDC 3.0 to UNFCCC in September 2025 (20.31% GHG reduction from BAU by 2035); BCCTF active with Tk 4,383.95 crore earmarked across 985 projects; BNP-Tarique government has not publicly reconvened a formal NCCC/NCECC meeting since the February 2026 transfer of power, but Environment Minister Mintoo is active on climate diplomacy (Turkey COP31 prep, bilateral meetings with Germany, UK, ADB, FAO).

Recent activity

Provenance & notes

Committee naming is inconsistent across sources. The BCCSAP 2008 (pre-2009 revision) referred to a 'National Steering Committee on Climate Change' chaired by the Adviser for Environment and Forests, sitting beneath a 'National Environment Committee' chaired by the Chief Adviser / Prime Minister (UNFCCC LDC Expert Group document). The BCCSAP 2009 revision institutionalised the apex PM-chaired body as the 'National Environment Committee' (NEC) with BCCSAP oversight. In 2023, ADB worked with the government to reconvene this body as the 'National Committee for Environment and Climate Change' (NCECC), consolidating all climate-related ministries; it established the Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership (BCDP) in 2024. The slug 'national-committee-on-climate-change' and acronym 'NCCC' are used in some government documents but are not the dominant public label -- 'NEC' and 'NCECC' appear in primary sources. No post-February 2026 (BNP-Tarique government) public record of a formal NCCC/NCECC convening has been found; head_since for PM Tarique Rahman is inferred from his oath date as PM (2026-02-17) as this is traditionally a PM-chaired ex-officio body. Record marked 'partial': committee formally exists, mandate and legal basis are documented, but no independent verification of a post-2026 meeting or formal reconstitution under the new government was found.

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