UNB, Dhaka :
Speakers at a meeting on Tuesday said neither short term nor project based but long term initiatives needed to be taken to face disaster and tackle climate change in Bangladesh.
Non-government organisation ‘friendship’ arranged the consultation meeting in a city hotel.
Addressing the programme Dr A Atiq Rahman, eminent climate change expert and Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies said, “As climate change and disaster management becomes an important issue for Bangladesh
at present, so neither short term nor project based initiatives but long term actions have to be taken to face disaster and climate change.”
He also said, the country face disasters like cyclone, river erosion, drought and flood round the year and these are increasing due to climate change.
Kazi Amdadul Haq, Strategic planning director and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management of ‘Friendship’ said, “We have to empower the marginalised communities to utilise their full potentialities through a need-based integrated development approach.”
We want to build such a world where people, especially the hard-to-reach and unaddressed ones,
can have equal opportunity to live with dignity and hope, he added.
The experts at the programme informed that marginal community facing more disasters and trying to adopt themselves. So, if some initiatives are taken for them, then we can save resources and lives. In this way, Bangladesh can become a role model in climate change and disaster management.
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), Dr Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed, Director of PKSF, among others were present on the occasion.
Speakers at a meeting on Tuesday said neither short term nor project based but long term initiatives needed to be taken to face disaster and tackle climate change in Bangladesh.
Non-government organisation ‘friendship’ arranged the consultation meeting in a city hotel.
Addressing the programme Dr A Atiq Rahman, eminent climate change expert and Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies said, “As climate change and disaster management becomes an important issue for Bangladesh
at present, so neither short term nor project based initiatives but long term actions have to be taken to face disaster and climate change.”
He also said, the country face disasters like cyclone, river erosion, drought and flood round the year and these are increasing due to climate change.
Kazi Amdadul Haq, Strategic planning director and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management of ‘Friendship’ said, “We have to empower the marginalised communities to utilise their full potentialities through a need-based integrated development approach.”
We want to build such a world where people, especially the hard-to-reach and unaddressed ones,
can have equal opportunity to live with dignity and hope, he added.
The experts at the programme informed that marginal community facing more disasters and trying to adopt themselves. So, if some initiatives are taken for them, then we can save resources and lives. In this way, Bangladesh can become a role model in climate change and disaster management.
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), Dr Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed, Director of PKSF, among others were present on the occasion.
