Saima Wazed recommends dedicated climate, mental health resilience day at COP28 | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Thursday
June 12, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
Saima Wazed recommends dedicated climate, mental health resilience day at COP28

Bangladesh

BSS
15 November, 2023, 09:05 pm
Last modified: 15 November, 2023, 09:12 pm

Related News

  • ‘Unacceptable and inadequate’: Experts slam govt for allocating only 0.67% of GDP to 25 climate-related ministries
  • Budget FY26: Tk100cr allocation proposed for tackling climate change risks
  • BNP wants to prioritise climate change, environmental protection in election manifesto: Mahdi Amin
  • Japanese SMBC's $1.86b fossil fuel investments draining Bangladesh's public funds, civil society orgs claim
  • Climate change: BPATC trainers receive specialised training to develop course modules for enhancing locally-led adaptation

Saima Wazed recommends dedicated climate, mental health resilience day at COP28

BSS
15 November, 2023, 09:05 pm
Last modified: 15 November, 2023, 09:12 pm
Saima Wazed shed light on the state of mental health and universal health coverage in Bangladesh and called for global cooperation with Bangladesh in addressing these growing challenges. Photo: BSS
Saima Wazed shed light on the state of mental health and universal health coverage in Bangladesh and called for global cooperation with Bangladesh in addressing these growing challenges. Photo: BSS

Saima Wazed, advisor to the Director General of the WHO for Mental Health and Autism and thematic ambassador for Vulnerability of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), has recommended that the Commonwealth organise a dedicated climate and mental health resilient day at the first-ever Health Day to be held at the COP28.
 
Saima, also the regional director-elect of WHO South-East Asian Regional Office (SEARO) and chairperson of Shuchona Foundation, was presenting the key-note speech at a high-profile roundtable on "Climate Vulnerability and Mental Health: Voices of Women", hosted on Tuesday by Bangladesh High Commission, London and the Commonwealth in partnership with the Shuchona Foundation on the eve of the Commonwealth Women Leaders' Summit taking place on November 15-16, 2023 at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, according to a press release of Bangladesh High Commission in London, UK, received today.
 
She highlighted the significance of climate and mental health resilience and suggested that Commonwealth nations collaborate more closely to address climate-related challenges and their adverse effects on mental health since countries do not have sufficient resources to handle these challenges on their own, the release added.
 
She emphasised the importance of early detection and appropriate management of mental health conditions through a collective approach and global awareness.
 
During her keynote speech, she also shed light on the state of mental health and universal health coverage in Bangladesh and called for global cooperation with Bangladesh in addressing these growing challenges.
 
Saima Wazed will chair the launching ceremony of the Commonwealth NCD Guiding Framework on November 16, 2023.
 
UK Minister for Environmental Quality and Resilience Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Rebecca Pow MP, Shadow Minister for Equalities Office Yasmin Qureshi, Conservative MP for Kensington and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness Felicity Buchan and Chair of UK All Party Parliamentary Group for UN Women Baroness Verma spoke on the occasion as special guests.

Commonwealth Secretary-General RT Hon Patricia Scotland KC, co-host of the event, made introductory remarks and High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem chaired the event as the host in her capacity as the President of Women in Diplomacy Network, London.
 
UK Minister Affairs Rebecca Pow MP spoke highly of Bangladesh's efforts to address climate change and mental health challenges. She lauded the country's achievements in women's empowerment, girls' education, and primary healthcare under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
 
Commonwealth Secretary-General RT Hon Patricia Scotland KC praised Bangladesh's leadership on championing mental health at the Kigali CHOGM 2022 and declaration of the Dhaka-Kigali Mental Health Compact.

The Secretary-General also recalled the Commonwealth CVF climate prosperity partnership launched at COP26.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

Top News

COP28 / saima wazed / climate change / mental health

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Plane crash near Ahmedabad airport in Gujrat, India, on 12 June 2025. Photo: Collected
    Air India flight to London crashes near Ahmedabad airport, scores feared dead
  • Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Sketch
    Bangladesh considering settlements with tycoons over offshore wealth: Mansur tells FT
  • Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury speaks to journalists in Salna, Gazipur, on 12 June 2025. Photo: TBS
    No bar to Tarique Rahman returning to Bangladesh: Home adviser

MOST VIEWED

  • File photo of ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Photo: Collected
    Joy spends Eid with Hasina in India: Indian media
  • Infofgraphics: TBS
    DGHS issues 11-point directive to prevent spread of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
  • Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. Photo: Collected
    UK crime agency now freezes assets of ex-land minister Saifuzzaman: AJ
  • File photo of BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury. Photo: Collected
    Khasru flies to London ahead of Yunus-Tarique meeting
  • Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus speaks at the Chatham House in London on 11 June 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing
    No desire to be part of next elected govt: CA Yunus
  • Illustration: Khandaker Abidur Rahman/TBS
    Three hospitals ‘held hostage’ as discharged July uprising injured keep occupying beds

Related News

  • ‘Unacceptable and inadequate’: Experts slam govt for allocating only 0.67% of GDP to 25 climate-related ministries
  • Budget FY26: Tk100cr allocation proposed for tackling climate change risks
  • BNP wants to prioritise climate change, environmental protection in election manifesto: Mahdi Amin
  • Japanese SMBC's $1.86b fossil fuel investments draining Bangladesh's public funds, civil society orgs claim
  • Climate change: BPATC trainers receive specialised training to develop course modules for enhancing locally-led adaptation

Features

Among pet birds in the country, lovebirds are the most common, and they are also the most numerous in the haat. Photo: Junayet Rashel

Where feathers meet fortune: How a small pigeon stall became Dhaka’s premiere bird market

21h | Panorama
Illustration: Duniya Jahan/ TBS

Forget Katy Perry, here’s Bangladesh’s Ruthba Yasmin shooting for the moon

1d | Features
File photo of Eid holidaymakers returning to the capital from their country homes/Rajib Dhar

Dhaka: The city we never want to return to, but always do

3d | Features
Photo collage shows political posters in Bagerhat. Photos: Jannatul Naym Pieal

From Sheikh Dynasty to sibling rivalry: Bagerhat signals a turning tide in local politics

5d | Bangladesh

More Videos from TBS

A tragic accident has occurred in Ahmedabad, India, involving an Air India Boeing 787

A tragic accident has occurred in Ahmedabad, India, involving an Air India Boeing 787

14m | TBS World
Delhi on Boil: Red Alert as Temperatures Soar

Delhi on Boil: Red Alert as Temperatures Soar

2h | TBS Stories
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not respond to a request to meet with Dr. Muhammad Yunus

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not respond to a request to meet with Dr. Muhammad Yunus

3h | TBS World
My words have been misinterpreted: Shafiqul Alam

My words have been misinterpreted: Shafiqul Alam

3h | TBS Stories
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net