Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- Bangladesh is facing a climate debt of about $80 per capita, more than three times the average of least developed countries (LDCs), speakers said at a meeting on Monday.

Speakers said this at view-sharing meeting organised by the Bangladesh Environmental Journalists Forum and Change Initiative at the Jaitya Press Club on Monday.

Bangladesh is taking $2.7 in loans against $1 in grants in climate finance and this loan is almost five times the LDC average in multilateral financing, they said.

The Change Initiative has prepared a climate risk debt index for 55 least developed countries in the world, said a press release.

Tanmoy Saha presented the Climate Debt Risk Index at the meeting with Bangladesh Environmental Journa...