The European Union (EU) has contributed 8.5 million pounds to Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) to help face climate change multiple impacts.

The government and the EU signed an agreement to this end recently, said an EU statement.

The fund aims to support until 2015 climate change adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction measures.

Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) is the heart of the BCCRF.