The Climate Centre is a unique place, located at Sreepur, 60 km north of Dhaka. The Climate Centre offers visitors exciting learning, research and capacity building opportunities on climate change, climate adaptation and mitigation. It uses interactive learning methods and demonstrates more than 50 technologies, that are suitable for poor rural communities. The Climate Centre, which is still under construction, consists of a Climate Technology Park, a Learning Centre and a Climate Campus.
The landscape of the Climate Technology Park is designed to demonstrate the five main ecological zones of Bangladesh – the coastal, dry, charland, hilly and haor zones. Visitors learn about the main climate change impacts on each zone, and how people can better adapt to it. Therefore, a large number of sustainable technologies like solar drip water irrigation, vertical gardening, agroforestry, biogas, fuel-efficient cooking, or desalinisation of drinking water is demonstrated in the Park. Once finished, Bangladesh’s largest water garden will become a special attraction, giving home to a large variety of native species. National and international visitors can book guided tours and special programs will be offered to women, children and young professionals.
The Climate Learning Centre, to be opened in 2020, is a certified green building, with conference facilities, an exhibition area, video projection, training rooms, a climate library, and an interactive learning space for children. Here, visitors will start their journey through the Park, practitioners can get trainings on different technologies, visiting researchers find a work space, and workshops and conferences can take place. The Climate Learning Centre includes a cafeteria with a large terrace, overseeing the Climate Technology Park and the nearby forest.
The Climate Campus, which is currently in the planning, will provide green accommodation facilities for visitors and the staff of the Climate Centre. It is designed to host bigger capacity building events of CCDB and it will be open for events of partnering organizations and institutions, too.
The Climate Centre will become a center of excellence and a unique place to be visited for all who want to know more about climate change and how to address it. Integral parts of the Centre’s vision are inclusiveness and openness: You are invited to come as a visitor, but you can also become a partner and contribute to make the vision to become reality.
