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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought global leaders\u2019 enhanced awareness about the climate change phenomenon and their effective initiatives to negate its impacts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI request all for their awareness and respective responsibility to fight the adverse impacts of climate change,\u201d she said while inaugurating a two-day Dhaka Meeting of the Global Commission on Adaptation in a city hotel here.<\/p>\n
The prime minister also urged the world community to put more emphasis on research and investment on this issue as the climate change is fast impacting on agriculture, life and livelihood.<\/p>\n
Marshal Islands President Hilda C. Heine, former United Nations Secretary General and incumbent Global Commission on Adaptation Chairman Ban Ki-moon
\nand World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva were present at the function.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the occasion, the three dignitaries highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her extraordinary leadership to lead the world to address the adverse impacts of climate change from the fore front.<\/p>\n
Hailing Bangladesh\u2019s initiatives and strategies to fight the climate change impacts, Ban Ki-moon said \u201cOf Course we are here to learn from Bangladesh \u2014 .When comes to adaptation; Bangladesh is the best teacher to learn about
\nadaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wishing a complete success of the Dhaka Meeting of GCA, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said \u201cThis is a great opportunity for us to demonstrate our own strategies to adapt to climate change, build resilience as well as offer to
\nshare our knowledge and experience with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are eagerly waiting to see the recommendations of the flagship report next September at the time of the climate change summit called by the secretary general of the United Nations where I, on behalf of Bangladesh and
\nthe Least Developed Countries (LDCs), have been invited to speak,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh is expecting to take advantage of the best adaptation practices, most cost-effective solutions and risk reduction with the help of the Global Commission on Adaptation, she said.<\/p>\n
The premier said that being a leading country of Adaptation, Bangladesh deserves to have a Regional Adaption Centre here.<\/p>\n
Highlighting her government frantic efforts to effectively fight the climate change, she said \u201cWe are working relentlessly to overcome our vulnerabilities and create adaptation measures for the people. Over the last
\ndecade, we have spent on an average around US$ 1 billion annually for adapting to climate change impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, to achieve climate resilience, the government created a dedicated Climate Change Trust Fund in 2009 and so far, more than US$ 420
\nmillion have been allocated from own resources to the fund for both adaptation and mitigation programs, she informed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have designed project titled \u2018Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100\u2019 for combating climate change,\u201d the prime minister also said.<\/p>\n
Considering the adverse impacts of climate change, Sheikh Hasina said her government is currently constructing more 378 Mujib Kellas, 3,868 multi-
\npurpose cyclone shelters across the coastal districts and planning to build 1,650 more shelters gradually.<\/p>\n
She said \u201cFather of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman showed the path of climate adaptation by building 172 Mujib Kellas (Cyclone Shelters) in the coastal areas\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have taken initiatives to increase tree coverage from 22% to 24% in the next five years. So far Bangladesh has created 0.2 million hectares of coastal forests as shelterbelt to protect from tidal surges and calamities.
\nBangladesh is also successfully managing 601,700 hectares of Sundarbans Mangrove forest,\u201d the premier said.<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md. Shahab Uddin also spoke on the occasion.<\/p>\n
Seeking more attention from the global community to repatriate Rohingyas quickly, the prime minister said \u201cIt is the responsibility of the global community to do more to ensure their quick return to Myanmar as well as look after them while they remain in Bangladesh as we have shelter to 1.1 million evicted Rohingyas in Cox\u2019s Bazar.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also said that their presence in Cox\u2019s Bazar makes the southeast coastal district of Bangladesh vulnerable.<\/p>\n
The prime minister said Bangladesh has engaged in creating resilient forests in offshore areas to protect forest dependent communities and habitats of important forest biodiversity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides, our scientists and farmers invented stress tolerant rice cultivation technologies which produced good results. Floating garden \u2013 a low input -low cost resilient family farming production system in the wetlands of the south-central coastal districts is another good example,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Household Silo (HHS) is another adaptation practice in Bangladesh to ensure food security in disaster prone areas, she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cBangladesh, being one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, is also at the forefront of learning on how to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change,\u201d the premier said.<\/p>\n
The prime minister said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman initiated Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP) in 1972 for effective cyclone preparedness in coastal areas and prepared 49,365 trained volunteers to this end.<\/p>\n
Referring to deaths in several catastrophic cyclone since 1970 which claimed around 10 lakh lives in Bangladesh, the premier said \u201cThe impact of natural calamities have come down significantly due to the present government\u2019s various timely and effective measures.\u201d<\/p>\n
In this regard, she said at least 1.5 lakh people died in the 1991 catastrophic cyclone, adding that Cyclone Sidr in 2007 caused deaths of more than 3,400 people.<\/p>\n
She also said Cyclone Aila hit southwest coast of Bangladesh in May 2009 claiming around 190 people while Cyclone Fani in May 2019 claimed less than 10 people.<\/p>\n
Referring to ADB\u2019s climate and economics report for South Asia predicting that our annual GDP loss will be 2%, if temperature continues to rise at the current rate, the premier said the 19 coastal districts of Bangladesh will face consequence if the sea level rises.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvidences suggest that Bangladesh has already 6 million climate migrants, a number that could more than double by 2050 due to changes in temperature, increased frequency and severity of floods, droughts, heat waves, cyclones and storm surges, sea level rise, and salinity intrusion,\u201d the premier also said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese changes are seriously affecting agriculture, crops, livestock and fisheries and threatening the food security of Bangladesh. According to IPCC report AR4, rice production in Bangladesh could decline by 8% and wheat by 32% by 2050 due to climate change,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2015 in Paris, we have been successful in creating a solid ground for a meaningful cooperation in combating climate change impacts. Like many others, we firmly believe that climate change is a global challenge and we have to resort to global solutions,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n
The Paris Agreement is the most pragmatic and effective global deal towards the global solution, she added.bss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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