Barisal Correspondent :
Participants at a human chain and rally in Barisal on Sunday demanded transparencies, justice and accountabilities in distribution and using climate change fund and focusing issues.
They also called to confront the climate change issue at upcoming COP 20 of United Nation as one of the biggest threats against human rights, justice and national security in Bangladesh.
Speakers of that programme, held in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall of the city, specially focused the impact of climate change on the 15 million riverine and coastal area people.
Barisal unit of Conscious Citizen Committee (CCC), local unit of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), arranged the programme.
It was organised to draw the attention of world leaders about the issue on the eve of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the Kyoto Protocol, scheduled to be held from 1 to 12 December at Lima of Peru.
The programme was presided over by Barisal CCC president Prof. M Moazzem Hussain and addressed among others by Manabendra Batobayal, Nazrul Islam Chunnu, Abdur Razzak, Dr. Habibur Rahman, Akkas Hossain, Rafikul Alam, Suvangkar Chakraborty, Shah Sajeda, Hamidul Islam, rights and development organisation activists.
They calling for climate change justice with compensations, adaptation grants blamed rich countries for prevailing global climatic situation and suggested long-term economic and socio development framework to resolve the effects of climatic change.
“We do not want any pity, but want justice and justified share of climate change fund with transparencies , accountabilities and without intervention of any foreign power or organization’, the speakers and participants said.
Participants at a human chain and rally in Barisal on Sunday demanded transparencies, justice and accountabilities in distribution and using climate change fund and focusing issues.
They also called to confront the climate change issue at upcoming COP 20 of United Nation as one of the biggest threats against human rights, justice and national security in Bangladesh.
Speakers of that programme, held in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall of the city, specially focused the impact of climate change on the 15 million riverine and coastal area people.
Barisal unit of Conscious Citizen Committee (CCC), local unit of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), arranged the programme.
It was organised to draw the attention of world leaders about the issue on the eve of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the Kyoto Protocol, scheduled to be held from 1 to 12 December at Lima of Peru.
The programme was presided over by Barisal CCC president Prof. M Moazzem Hussain and addressed among others by Manabendra Batobayal, Nazrul Islam Chunnu, Abdur Razzak, Dr. Habibur Rahman, Akkas Hossain, Rafikul Alam, Suvangkar Chakraborty, Shah Sajeda, Hamidul Islam, rights and development organisation activists.
They calling for climate change justice with compensations, adaptation grants blamed rich countries for prevailing global climatic situation and suggested long-term economic and socio development framework to resolve the effects of climatic change.
“We do not want any pity, but want justice and justified share of climate change fund with transparencies , accountabilities and without intervention of any foreign power or organization’, the speakers and participants said.
