Civil society members urge govt
Civil society members on Saturday urged the government to work out a climate action plan with own resources and capacity to tackle climate-induced problems.
At a press conference, they said that the government should move forward with its own capacity as the recent CoP-19 outcome had seriously undermined the interests of
least developed countries and climate victim countries were facing climate-induced problems.
Eight civil society networks organised the press conference on ‘CoP-19 outcome: Interests of climate victim countries are really vulnerable’ at the National Press
Club.
EquityBD coordinator Syed Aminul Hoque said that the climate vulnerable countries had gained very little from climate talks in Warsaw because of developed countries’
non-cooperative attitude, although they were the biggest polluters and responsible for global warming.
He said that the most promising areas of least developed countries and climate vulnerable countries’ interests were loss & damage issue, which had been concluded with
a hollow setup of working mechanism with deferred to a three-year period up to 2016.
Aminul recommended that Bangladesh shouldn’t wait for some million dollars of foreign aid where the country had more than 15 billion of remittances.
Climate Finance Governance Network executive director Ahsan Uddin said that as annex-1 countries along with like-minded developing countries such as India, China and
Australia were obstructing the climate talks in every step, Bangladesh and other LDCs were now facing problems.
‘They have pushed the loss & damage, the long expected issue of LDCs and CVCs, towards an uncertainty,’ he said.
Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan secretary general Abdul Matin said, ‘We should not only focus on climate funds, but we also need to revise own climate policy, otherwise we
will be morally and logically weak in the international climate negotiations in future.’
-With New Age input
