Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Our national development plans should be designed considering the climate change, speakers said at a seminar at Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday. Environmental science department of the university and Training Research Education for Empowerment jointly organised the seminar presided over by department Chairman Dr Sayeed Hafizur Rahman. Speaking as the chief guest, JU Vice Chancellor Prof Mohammad Moniruzzaman said global warming is the reason behind climate change that is affecting the lives of all the living creatures on earth.
The perplex tackling of Bangladeshi illegal immigrations into India will be more pronounced due to global warming, felt Meghalaya Additional Director General of Police Kulbir Kishen. Presenting a paper at a two-day national seminar in Shillong on Saturday, the ADGP anticipated a bigger problem, if scientists' prediction about global warming is to be believed. Due to global warming, a one metre rise of the ocean water will swamp 25 per cent of Bangladesh land and those displaced Bangladeshis will look up and rush to India, stated Kishen.
Over 2.30 lakh rural households were brought under the solar power system in last five years by Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) as alternative source of energy. Executive Director of IDCOL, a company under the Ministry of Finance, M Ehsanul Haque yesterday said they have set a target to install one million Solar Household Systems (SHSs) by 2012 to help government achieve the target of providing electricity to all by 2020.
A new way to predict how habitat zones will shift or vanish could help usher endangered species to safety.
Bangladeshi expatriates in Australia and the Australian government have expressed their commitment to combat multiple effects of climate change in Bangladesh. The commitment came at a symposium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bangladesh Environment Network (Ben) in Canberra last week. The symposium titled 'Environment and Bangladesh' was organised by Ben's Australian chapter at the Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra to strengthen ties between Ben and environmentalists in Australia.
A three-day SAARC conference on climate change was held in Dhaka from 1 to 3 July, where the ministers and experts of South Asian countries resonated the judicious demands of developing nations to adapt vis-a-vis the impacts of the climate change. In the context of global warming, faster sea level rise, frequent devastating cyclones, floods and droughts, the SAARC countries have designed an action plan to combat the environmental challenges.
Speakers at a seminar yesterday underscored the need to build capacity to adopt a sustainable climate change adaptation strategy. Bangladesh is most vulnerable to climate change and an adaptation strategy must be adopted to offset the impacts of global climate change, they said. "We have succeeded in coping with two devastating floods and the cyclone Sidr last year by dint of our strong determination. Besides, the country has managed to ensure food security in the wake of global food crisis," Home Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin said as the chief guest.
Bangladesh could double its production of foodgrains by the next five years if the country's farmers are brought under the currently available technology and supplied with quality seeds, agriculture experts said. They said, use of modern technology is now a must for production of additional foodgrains by using the limited land with a view to facing the food crisis and maintaining their prices at tolerable levels.
Bangladesh could double its production of foodgrains by the next five years if the country's farmers are brought under the currently available technology and supplied with quality seeds, agriculture experts said. They said, use of modern technology is now a must for production of additional foodgrains by using the limited land with a view to facing the food crisis and maintaining their prices at tolerable levels.
Bangladesh could double its production of foodgrains by the next five years if the country's farmers are brought under the currently available technology and supplied with quality seeds, agriculture experts said. They said, use of modern technology is now a must for production of additional foodgrains by using the limited land with a view to facing the food crisis and maintaining their prices at tolerable levels.