Barisal Correspondent :
Participants at a day- long view exchange programme in Barisal on Wednesday stressed on forming climate commission, executing Paris protocol on Climate Change with coordinated Local Adaptation Plan and justice in distributing climate change fund for facing climate change affects.
The programme was held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Development Society in it the city. It was organised by Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) in cooperation with Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh-Trust (NCCB).
Representatives from different social, cultural, development, professional organisations of the region participated in that programme presided over by Akkas Hossain, freedom fighter and rights activist.
Dr. Gazi Md. Saifuzzaman, deputy commissioner, Barisal was the chief guest of the programme and key-notes on the topic was presented by Gazi Manjurul Islam of NCCB.
Among others Rashida Begum, district women affairs officer, Sukumar Biswas, director Environment Directorate office, Denis Marandy, project manager of CCDP, Imran Kibria, planning, maintainance and evaluation officer of CCDB, Anowar Zahid, Fazilatunnesa Farid, Dr. Syed Habibur Rahman, Shuvangkar Chakraborty, Lincoln Bayen, social, human, professional rights and development organisation activists, participated in discussion.
The speakers said Bangladesh took initiatives for a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) following the decision of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held at Warsaw in 2013 negotiating with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). NAP and NAMA plans were cited at the budget lecture of the finance minister of June 5, 2014. One hundred and seventy five countries signed Paris Treaty in the 21st conference of Paris Convention on Climate Change held on December 12, 2015.
But forming a Climate Change Commission needs to coordinate between the Bangladesh Climate Change Process and Planning 2009, Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan BCCSAP 2009, Climate Change Trust Act 2010, Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA), NAP and NAMA, the speakers told.
For proper execution and utilisation of the plans it also urgently needed to execute Climate Change Justice Formula for justified distribution of the fund, they noticed.
Often projects and approaches are critical to understand local needs, keeping communities central to decision and planning processes. So those could not able to address the greater landscape of environmental services to contend with such challenges, the speakers said.
Separate plans with clear-cut preferences for the coastal, shoal, dry, plain, hilly and haor areas needed for adapting LAPA to face climate change affects properly for increasing resilience to weather and other economic and natural shocks, the participants said.
Similarly, local community-based approaches will also address other system-wide activities like access to markets, seasonal migration for income diversifying source, and resilience-building activities for local people, they told.
Participants at a day- long view exchange programme in Barisal on Wednesday stressed on forming climate commission, executing Paris protocol on Climate Change with coordinated Local Adaptation Plan and justice in distributing climate change fund for facing climate change affects.
The programme was held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Development Society in it the city. It was organised by Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) in cooperation with Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh-Trust (NCCB).
Representatives from different social, cultural, development, professional organisations of the region participated in that programme presided over by Akkas Hossain, freedom fighter and rights activist.
Dr. Gazi Md. Saifuzzaman, deputy commissioner, Barisal was the chief guest of the programme and key-notes on the topic was presented by Gazi Manjurul Islam of NCCB.
Among others Rashida Begum, district women affairs officer, Sukumar Biswas, director Environment Directorate office, Denis Marandy, project manager of CCDP, Imran Kibria, planning, maintainance and evaluation officer of CCDB, Anowar Zahid, Fazilatunnesa Farid, Dr. Syed Habibur Rahman, Shuvangkar Chakraborty, Lincoln Bayen, social, human, professional rights and development organisation activists, participated in discussion.
The speakers said Bangladesh took initiatives for a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) following the decision of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held at Warsaw in 2013 negotiating with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). NAP and NAMA plans were cited at the budget lecture of the finance minister of June 5, 2014. One hundred and seventy five countries signed Paris Treaty in the 21st conference of Paris Convention on Climate Change held on December 12, 2015.
But forming a Climate Change Commission needs to coordinate between the Bangladesh Climate Change Process and Planning 2009, Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan BCCSAP 2009, Climate Change Trust Act 2010, Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA), NAP and NAMA, the speakers told.
For proper execution and utilisation of the plans it also urgently needed to execute Climate Change Justice Formula for justified distribution of the fund, they noticed.
Often projects and approaches are critical to understand local needs, keeping communities central to decision and planning processes. So those could not able to address the greater landscape of environmental services to contend with such challenges, the speakers said.
Separate plans with clear-cut preferences for the coastal, shoal, dry, plain, hilly and haor areas needed for adapting LAPA to face climate change affects properly for increasing resilience to weather and other economic and natural shocks, the participants said.
Similarly, local community-based approaches will also address other system-wide activities like access to markets, seasonal migration for income diversifying source, and resilience-building activities for local people, they told.
