Two UK Cabinet Ministers, Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, and Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, visited Bangladesh (31 August - 1 September 2009) for high level discussions about climate change.


Read the official Press Release

Read the official Press Statement

Read the article on the visit and climate change by the Ministers: Urgency of tackling climate change

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Highlights from the visit

• The Ministers attended the launch of the British Council International Climate Change Champions Project (31 August 2009)
  
• The Ministers called on H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the members of the cabinet (31 August 2009)
• The Ministers visited a char island in Sirajganj and met some of the people most directly affected by severe storms and extreme weather and saw how they are adapting their homes and livelihoods to live with climate change (1 September 2009)