BSS, Dhaka :
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Wednesday said Bangladesh has already taken up a comprehensive plan for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) through preventing environment pollution, ensuring safe drinking water and safe sewerage system.
“Protecting water and environment from industrial pollution are the top priority area of Bangladesh and the government has planned to work in this regard in cooperation with private sector and civil society,” Amu said while speaking as a panel discussant at an international seminar at the UN headquarters in New York.
Former President of Ghana John A Kafour chaired the panel discussion styled “Making it Happen: Ending Inequalities and Enduring Sanitation, Water and Hygiene for All as A Basis for Achieving the SDGs”.
South Africa, the Netherlands, Hungary and Bangladesh jointly organized the event on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, according to information received here today.
President of Sanitation and Water for All Partnership Ms Catarina de Albuquerue moderated the discussion while Christina Rebergen delivered the welcome speech.
Water and sewer affairs minister of South Africa Nomvula Mokonyane, Thomas Gas of the UN, deputy minister for foreign affairs and trade Adam Zoltam Kovacs, Jeninifer Sara of the Work Bank and Fataoumata Ndiaye of UNICEF took part in the discussion.
Amu in his speech said Bangladesh has been implementing a series of development programmes to achieve a middle-income country status by 2021 and a developed country by 2041.
Some mega projects have already been implemented to remove poverty, achieve higher economic growth and increase industrial productivity, he added.
He urged the developing and developed nations to work together to achieve SDGs through preventing environment pollution. Achieving sustainable development does not depend on poverty alleviation, rather it depends on ensuring respectful livelihood for all, he added.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Wednesday said Bangladesh has already taken up a comprehensive plan for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) through preventing environment pollution, ensuring safe drinking water and safe sewerage system.
“Protecting water and environment from industrial pollution are the top priority area of Bangladesh and the government has planned to work in this regard in cooperation with private sector and civil society,” Amu said while speaking as a panel discussant at an international seminar at the UN headquarters in New York.
Former President of Ghana John A Kafour chaired the panel discussion styled “Making it Happen: Ending Inequalities and Enduring Sanitation, Water and Hygiene for All as A Basis for Achieving the SDGs”.
South Africa, the Netherlands, Hungary and Bangladesh jointly organized the event on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, according to information received here today.
President of Sanitation and Water for All Partnership Ms Catarina de Albuquerue moderated the discussion while Christina Rebergen delivered the welcome speech.
Water and sewer affairs minister of South Africa Nomvula Mokonyane, Thomas Gas of the UN, deputy minister for foreign affairs and trade Adam Zoltam Kovacs, Jeninifer Sara of the Work Bank and Fataoumata Ndiaye of UNICEF took part in the discussion.
Amu in his speech said Bangladesh has been implementing a series of development programmes to achieve a middle-income country status by 2021 and a developed country by 2041.
Some mega projects have already been implemented to remove poverty, achieve higher economic growth and increase industrial productivity, he added.
He urged the developing and developed nations to work together to achieve SDGs through preventing environment pollution. Achieving sustainable development does not depend on poverty alleviation, rather it depends on ensuring respectful livelihood for all, he added.
