'15m people of country's coastal area will be landless' in a few yrs
DU Correspondent | Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Climate analysts Tuesday predicted that some 15 million people of the country's coastal area would be landless within next few years due to the effect of climate change throughout the world.
They said around thirty thousand square kilometres of land of the coastal area would be inundated due to the rise of sea level, the direct outcome of climate change, making the people of the region 'climate refugees'.
They made the observations while presenting their research papers on the second day of a six-day international conference on 'climate change and food security in South Asia' at the Senate Building of Dhaka University (DU).
Joint Secretary of the Environment and Forest Ministry Rabindranath Roy Chowdhury in his research paper on 'climate change and Bangladesh' said the Inter-governmental panel on climate change (IPCC) in its fourth assessment report warned the government of possible risks due to climate change.
They said around thirty thousand square kilometres of land of the coastal area would be inundated due to the rise of sea level, the direct outcome of climate change, making the people of the region 'climate refugees'.
They made the observations while presenting their research papers on the second day of a six-day international conference on 'climate change and food security in South Asia' at the Senate Building of Dhaka University (DU).
Joint Secretary of the Environment and Forest Ministry Rabindranath Roy Chowdhury in his research paper on 'climate change and Bangladesh' said the Inter-governmental panel on climate change (IPCC) in its fourth assessment report warned the government of possible risks due to climate change.