The government has been conducting a baseline study on climate change impact in different sectors since 2013 to formulate a strategy to face the impact and ensure sustainable development with accurate and updated data.
This was shared during a daylong workshop on impact of climate change on human life at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Wednesday.
Organised by Impact of Climate Change on Human Life (ICCHL) Programme of BBS, the workshop was chaired by BBS acting director general Mohammad Baitul Amin Bhuiyan.
Among others, Information Division secretary Kaniz Fatema, additional secretary Mohmmad Shafiqul Islam and joint secretary Kazi Mostafa Sarwar addressed the workshop.
ICCHL deputy programme director Mohammad Rafiqul Islam presented the keynote paper in it.
The speakers said impact of climate change is visible in socio-economic lives of the people, which include decrease in agricultural productivity, spread of diseases, and disasters like excessive rainfall, draught, flood, water-logging, cyclone, sea-surge, tornado, river erosion, landslide and salinity etc.
They observed that in absence of updated information on increase of natural calamities, influenced by climate change, impact of greenhouse gas effect on Bangladesh could not be assessed properly.
The keynote speaker said ICCHL programme has been taken to support the government, development partners, non-government organsiations and environmentalists etc with updated information for preparing planning on climate change issues.
Objective of the programme is to find out characteristics of socio-economic impact, assess productivity loss in agricultural sector, collect data on damaged arable land, health, sanitation, loss of households, vulnerability of women and children, and identify level of awareness on climate change in disaster-prone areas.
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FE Report | Published: April 09, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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