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.
It's either forests, or nothing. This is how one can define livelihoods in the hill tracts. As we travelled from one hill to another, one pourasava to the other, one territory to another in Khagrachhari and Rangamati, we found that the people are highly dependent on forest resources. They are clearing hills after hills without any regards for forestry or wildlife and engaging in Jhum cultivation. They have no other means for survival too. And when you have no options, you turn to the immediate next thing you have--the forests.
A total of 30,000 biogas plants have so far been installed in rural areas in the country as an alternative source of energy to reduce the use of firewood. People are using biogas for cooking, lighting and generation of electricity while residues from the plants utilised as organic fertiliser for crop production.
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka yesterday demanded land reform and formation of farmers' cooperative to ensure food sovereignty. "We need an agricultural system that is supportive of feeding all the countrymen. We have problems in the system of food production. But the main problem remains in the distribution system as it fails to distribute the produced food equally among all,' said Serajul Islam Choudhury, professor emirates of the University of Dhaka.
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka during a meeting yesterday underscored the need for formulating a 100-year-long master plan to keep the capital habitable. He also suggested that a separate independent authority be formed, comprised of environmentalists and experts concerned, to save the rivers around Dhaka as they are dying. Khoka was presiding over a meeting arranged to celebrate 144 years of the DCC at Osmani Auditorium. He said if a 100-year-long master plan is not taken immediately, Dhaka will become an uninhabitable city.
IT is beyond doubt that Bangladesh is one of the badly affected countries from the impacts of climate change. Therefore, it is no more any fashion rather an imperative to call for effective measures for combating climate change.
The four-month-old baby was crying at the top of his voice while the mother was cursing her fate sitting beside the baby for her failure to buy tinned milk being a wife of a rickshawpuller at Kamrangeer Char area of the city. Failing to provide tinned milk, she was giving the baby rice powder mixing with water. The baby was also receiving breast milk.
Police seized 60 maunds of adulterated ghee and vegetable oils from a factory near Chittagong University (CU) in the early hours of yesterday. They also arrested five people in this connection. The arrestees were identified as Akash, Sagar and Vishnu of Tangail, Shahid of Mymensingh and Rahim of Bhola. Sources said Hathazari police unearthed the factory housed in a thatched structure at CU Gate No 1 beside Chittagong-Hathazari Road. In a drive that started at around 2:30am, they seized 13 drums of adulterated ghee and vegetable oils and 7 drums of palm oils from the factory.
Climate change would affect unique flora and fauna of the Sundarbans.
There is no possibility of respite for around 4 lakh people in Jhigatola area in the city from severe waterlogging soon as the authorities are likely to start work for development of a new sewerage system in the area in November. People of the area said they have been facing serious waterlogging over the years during the rainy seasons, but the authorities do not take any effective steps to solve the perennial problem.
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