Dhaka, Oct. 15 -- Rights groups have called on COP31 to prioritise the implementation of existing climate commitments over new pledges, ensure adequate and accessible grant-based climate finance, and provide dedicated long-term funding for women farmers.

They also called for fulfilling the commitment to triple adaptation finance, ensuring that loss and damage funding reaches affected people quickly and directly, and providing finance and technology transfer to support a just transition away from fossil fuels.

The demands were raised at a seminar jointly organised by EquityBD, BCJF, COAST Foundation, AVAS, Bindu and Street Child at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday.

Speakers stressed that women farmers must be recognised as ind...