National Committee on Climate Change

The committee is focused on operationalizing a national framework for carbon emission reduction and establishing mechanisms to participate in the global carbon credit market.

Committee naming is inconsistent across sources. The BCCSAP 2008 (pre-2009 revision) referred to a 'National Steering Committee on Climate Change' chaired by the Adviser for Environment and Forests, sitting beneath a 'National Environment Committee' chaired by the Chief Adviser / Prime Minister (UNFCCC LDC Expert Group document). The BCCSAP 2009 revision institutionalised the apex PM-chaired body as the 'National Environment Committee' (NEC) with BCCSAP oversight. In 2023, ADB worked with the government to reconvene this body as the 'National Committee for Environment and Climate Change' (NCECC), consolidating all climate-related ministries; it established the Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership (BCDP) in 2024. The slug 'national-committee-on-climate-change' and acronym 'NCCC' are used in some government documents but are not the dominant public label -- 'NEC' and 'NCECC' appear in primary sources. No post-February 2026 (BNP-Tarique government) public record of a formal NCCC/NCECC convening has been found; head_since for PM Tarique Rahman is inferred from his oath date as PM (2026-02-17) as this is traditionally a PM-chaired ex-officio body. Record marked 'partial': committee formally exists, mandate and legal basis are documented, but no independent verification of a post-2026 meeting or formal reconstitution under the new government was found.