Fighting Climate Change
Bangladesh should clarify position before global alliances
Say environmentalists
Environmentalists at a press conference yesterday urged the government to take sustainable long-term action plans to deal with impacts of climate change.
They said Bangladesh should make its position and demand clear before the global alliances as an “innocent victim” of climate change. Oxfam in association with some other organisations arranged the event at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity.
The green activists want such actions prior to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP 19), to be held from November 11-22 in Warsaw, Poland.
Bangladesh is expected to take part in the conference.
Targeting the COP 19, the environmentalists declared their position paper titled “Survival is Non-negotiable: Equity, Justice and Fairness for All.”
The paper identified 10 climate related issues in Bangladesh, including mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, technology transfer and development, agriculture, migration, and finance.
“Bangladesh should continue to raise voice against such reversal in commitment,” said Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, executive director of Centre for Global Change.
M Asaduzzaman, general secretary of Sustainable Development Networking Foundation, said proper action should be taken for migration issue caused by climate change.
-With The Daily Star input
