Staff Reporter :
The school students have demanded to the government to take strong action on climate change. They also called to incorporate the climate issue into school textbooks, and properly utilizing all funds for climate mitigation.
At least eight hundred students from a dozen local schools in Rayerbazer in Dhaka organized a climate action event to move up their demands on climate crisis at Boishakhi playground in the area on Saturday.
The students presented various demands to the government at the programme to take strong action on climate change. The demands include, calling the climate crisis a calamity, pressuring high emitting countries to stop all new extraction of fossil fuels, work towards rapidly ceasing all fossil fuel use, incorporating the climate crisis into school textbooks, and properly utilizing all funds for climate mitigation.
During the event, students made a human chain to spell out the words “Stop Emissions Now”. Students also displayed a long banner with demands for action on the climate crisis and collected signatures from schools in Rayerbazer area, and from universities and other groups.
The students said that they cannot wait any longer to address the climate
emergency and called on the high emitting countries to rapidly scale back their fossil fuel use in order to reach zero fossil fuel use within the next several years.
They also called upon the people to show the way to reduce emissions by walking and cycling more and shifting from industrial back to natural products.
Manjur Hassan Dilu from “Stop Emissions Now, Bangladesh” said that the event was organized to draw attention to the demands of Bangladeshis for strong climate action to prevent Bangladesh from being completely submerged under water by 2100.
Debra Efroymson, a member of “Stop Emissions Now, Bangladesh” and Executive Director of the Institute of Wellbeing, said that in the face of a global crisis, young people must speak up and make their demands heard to the leaders of countries most responsible for the climate crisis.
“We love our country Bangladesh and we will work to protect it from the climate crisis,” she said.
The eight hundred students were joined by another one hundred teachers and community members. The event was organized as part of the September month of climate actions, an international campaign to draw attention to the severity of the climate crisis and the need for rapid and dramatic action.
The school students have demanded to the government to take strong action on climate change. They also called to incorporate the climate issue into school textbooks, and properly utilizing all funds for climate mitigation.
At least eight hundred students from a dozen local schools in Rayerbazer in Dhaka organized a climate action event to move up their demands on climate crisis at Boishakhi playground in the area on Saturday.
The students presented various demands to the government at the programme to take strong action on climate change. The demands include, calling the climate crisis a calamity, pressuring high emitting countries to stop all new extraction of fossil fuels, work towards rapidly ceasing all fossil fuel use, incorporating the climate crisis into school textbooks, and properly utilizing all funds for climate mitigation.
During the event, students made a human chain to spell out the words “Stop Emissions Now”. Students also displayed a long banner with demands for action on the climate crisis and collected signatures from schools in Rayerbazer area, and from universities and other groups.
The students said that they cannot wait any longer to address the climate
emergency and called on the high emitting countries to rapidly scale back their fossil fuel use in order to reach zero fossil fuel use within the next several years.
They also called upon the people to show the way to reduce emissions by walking and cycling more and shifting from industrial back to natural products.
Manjur Hassan Dilu from “Stop Emissions Now, Bangladesh” said that the event was organized to draw attention to the demands of Bangladeshis for strong climate action to prevent Bangladesh from being completely submerged under water by 2100.
Debra Efroymson, a member of “Stop Emissions Now, Bangladesh” and Executive Director of the Institute of Wellbeing, said that in the face of a global crisis, young people must speak up and make their demands heard to the leaders of countries most responsible for the climate crisis.
“We love our country Bangladesh and we will work to protect it from the climate crisis,” she said.
The eight hundred students were joined by another one hundred teachers and community members. The event was organized as part of the September month of climate actions, an international campaign to draw attention to the severity of the climate crisis and the need for rapid and dramatic action.
