Dhaka, April 26 -- Experts at a roundtable on Thursday called for the integration of climate finance and insurance mechanisms for coastal communities, to be funded through compensation from the world's major climate-polluting countries.

Supported by CARE Bangladesh, An Organisation for Socio-Economic Development (AOSED) organised the "Sub-National Roundtable on Prospects of Pro-Poor, Gender Responsive, and Human Rights-Based CDRFI Mechanism in the Coastal Region" at a hotel in Khulna.

Shamim Arfeen, executive director of AOSED, moderated the programme.

He said the state should formulate an insurance policy for climate-affected poor communities and launch a climate insurance scheme by paying disaster insurance premiums with funds receiv...