City Desk :
Climate experts said Bangladesh needs to focus on adaptive measures to cope with the adverse impact of climate change.
Developing countries like Bangladesh are bearing the burden of excessive carbon emissions caused by industrialized nations, which are mainly responsible for global warming, they said this on Thursday while speaking at a seminar in the conference room of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC), a press release said.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and BARC along with different organizations organized the seminar on “Climate Change: Impact of Forest and Water Resources”.
Environment and Forest Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud addressed the seminar as the chief guest while PKSF Chairman Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad presided over it.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Dr Atiq Rahman, Prof Dr Masfiqus Salehin, representatives of different local and international organizations, among others, addressed the seminar.
Anisul said various milestone initiatives have been taken in the country, including making Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP), 2009, Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) and Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) and Climate Change Trust Act-2010, to enhance capacity on the climate change issue.
He said the Paris accord requires all countries to devise plans to achieve the goal of keeping the rise in temperature within two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial levels and strive for 1.5 C if possible.
Dr Kholiquzzaman said, “Many people across the country have become refugees due to various reasons including flood, river bank erosions and cyclone. Basically they are climate change victims.”
Bangladesh alone cannot face climate change issue as it is a global phenomenon, he said adding it should move bilaterally as well as multilaterally along with strong bargaining capacity to pile up pressure on rich nations to extend their financial and technical supports to climate vulnerable countries, he added.
Other speakers said Bangladesh is already facing adverse impact of global climate change and it is urgent to raise its voice to get adequate financing supports from green climate fund to make it climate resilient country.
Industrialized countries pledged to provide 10.5 billion US dollar for green climate fund to be spent in next four years, they said adding this is an inadequate financial allocation for dealing with climate change issue.
Climate experts said Bangladesh needs to focus on adaptive measures to cope with the adverse impact of climate change.
Developing countries like Bangladesh are bearing the burden of excessive carbon emissions caused by industrialized nations, which are mainly responsible for global warming, they said this on Thursday while speaking at a seminar in the conference room of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC), a press release said.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and BARC along with different organizations organized the seminar on “Climate Change: Impact of Forest and Water Resources”.
Environment and Forest Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud addressed the seminar as the chief guest while PKSF Chairman Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad presided over it.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Dr Atiq Rahman, Prof Dr Masfiqus Salehin, representatives of different local and international organizations, among others, addressed the seminar.
Anisul said various milestone initiatives have been taken in the country, including making Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP), 2009, Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) and Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) and Climate Change Trust Act-2010, to enhance capacity on the climate change issue.
He said the Paris accord requires all countries to devise plans to achieve the goal of keeping the rise in temperature within two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial levels and strive for 1.5 C if possible.
Dr Kholiquzzaman said, “Many people across the country have become refugees due to various reasons including flood, river bank erosions and cyclone. Basically they are climate change victims.”
Bangladesh alone cannot face climate change issue as it is a global phenomenon, he said adding it should move bilaterally as well as multilaterally along with strong bargaining capacity to pile up pressure on rich nations to extend their financial and technical supports to climate vulnerable countries, he added.
Other speakers said Bangladesh is already facing adverse impact of global climate change and it is urgent to raise its voice to get adequate financing supports from green climate fund to make it climate resilient country.
Industrialized countries pledged to provide 10.5 billion US dollar for green climate fund to be spent in next four years, they said adding this is an inadequate financial allocation for dealing with climate change issue.
