Worst hit country satisfied with climate deal

21/12-2009 by Rie Jerichow

Just hours after the world leaders had hammered out a deal, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina expressed satisfaction over a "reasonable conclusion" to the UN Climate Change Conference.

Speaking at Lund University in Sweden, the Prime Minister stated that the agreement takes in most of the country’s concerns, AFP reports.

"I am pleased to say that we have been successful in arriving at a reasonable conclusion," she said, adding that "there are certain areas that would be finalized in the coming days."

The global meeting concluded without any binding deal on carbon cuts and adaptation funds. Hasina, who led a Dhaka delegation to the Danish capital, called upon the countries participating in the COP15 climate summit to be "realistic" taking into account various aspects of the world economy and development, United News of Bangladesh (UNB) reports.

A report, released during the first week of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen by the climate and development organization Germanwatch, ranks Bangladesh the country most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate changes increase in the intensity of extreme weather events.