Several hundred students marched on city streets on Friday demanding effective measures to combat global climate change and minimise its impacts on the Earth.
Marking the Global Climate Week, the students from different educational institutions gathered at the National Press Club and later marched on the city roads voicing the demand for a safe world.
People from all walks of life also expressed their solidarity with the demonstrators and joined the procession.
During the programme, the young students carried a "plastic monster" and showed how plastic and electronic goods are leading the Earth to death.
The Global Climate Week is being observed from September 20-27 when the young people across the globe are scheduled to march on the streets to urge global leaders joining the UN General Assembly to commit to urgent and immediate action to stop climate catastrophe.
The week started on Friday with schoolchildren all around the world holding climate action movement 'Fridays for Future'.
While speaking at the event, participants said those who are contributing less to carbon emissions are the worst victims of climate change. But world leaders are not playing their due role to this end, they added.
Despite warning from scientists of taking immediate steps to deal with global climate change, the world leaders are doing a little and not attaching due importance to addressing the issue, they observed.
Participants also pointed out that Bangladesh made little contribution to carbon emissions but its people have already become worst victims of global climate change. They urged developed countries and world leaders to provide support.
ActonAid programme director Md Asgar Ali Sabri urged world youths to raise their voice against carbon emissions.
Youths for Climate Justice, Activista, BRAC University, ULAB University, Plan International Bangladesh, International Centre for Climate Change, Care Bangladesh, and Islamic Relief Bangladesh took part in event.
In early August 2018, the world's leading climate scientists warned that they had only a dozen of years to limit climate change catastrophe.
The climate movement has long been underway but following the global movement of schoolchildren launched by 16-year-old Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, the young people are leading a global climate movement demanding urgent action to secure their future.
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