ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the actors pursue their political and economic interests through the operations of two climate change-related funds – Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) and Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF) – in Bangladesh. The analysis of climate finance is important because it will demonstrate how funds are spent for securing the mutual interests of the actors involved, and how the multi-scalar knowledge brokers move back and forth at all three levels – local, national and international – in maintaining the transnational network and in serving the political and economic interests. The chapter focuses on the BCCRF's Climate Change Resilience Participatory Afforestation and Reforestation Projects as the main example for analyzing how all the actors maintain a transnational network for securing their political and economic interests. BCCTF is spent in areas where the climate change-related effects are minimal.
