Local Government Minister Tajul Islam inaugurates 500-seat auditorium cum multipurpose hall on Islampur Upazila Parishad premises in Jamalpur on Saturday. NN photo

The Ocean Conference: An integrated vision needed

Jan Kellett :In March 2015 at the Sendai World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, the then President of Kirbati, Anote Tong, made it very clear how vulnerable his country was to climate and disaster risk, when he informed the room (which was sadly less than half full) that his country had purchased land in Fiji.The reason was simple: the threat that climate change to every aspect of life and living of his country, and that belief that one day, should...

27 May 2017, 12:00 am