Implementation Challenges and Barriers

Some of the key implementation challenges identified during the NDC update are as follows:

• Lack of knowledge and awareness about NDC and mitigation among many relevant sector officials. An

extensive awareness campaign on mitigation and NDC will be needed to overcome this.

• There is a lack of basic data collection regularly for industries, transport, agriculture, forestry and waste.

Studies need to be conducted periodically to overcome this.

• As the mitigation actions mostly require a large amount of money to successfully implement them,

financial support from different agencies, banks, bilateral or multilateral funds will be needed.

• As Bangladesh is a small country with a high population, food security is a significant issue. Rice is the

primary staple crop of Bangladesh and there is a growing concern among the sector related community regarding emission reduction activities from rice fields. The updated NDC incorporated a minimal emission reduction from rice fields. Further research and technology transfer at the field level will be required to enhance emission reduction from the rice field.

• The growing need for land for human settlement, agriculture, industries, and timber and fuelwood is

mainly responsible for deforestation and forest degradation. Most forest loss can be attributed to overpopulation, poverty and unemployment, and governance. Governance impacts all forest types and specifically included problems related to uncertainty in land tenure and lack of capacity to implement forestry-related management, policies, and law enforcement. In turn, these indirect drivers lead to a suite of direct drivers of deforestation, namely uncontrolled encroachment from industrialization and agriculture and illegal logging. So, the maintenance of existing forest land is of great concern.

• Sustainable management of the forest land and restoration of degraded/ deforested land will require

substantial financial support. Collaborative management of forest areas with forest-dependent communities can be an effective solution to reduce degradation.