'15pc land in country to go under water by 40-50 yrs'
Monday, 26 November 2007
As many tidal surges are likely in Bangladesh in the future, some 15 per cent of land of the country will go under water by 40-50 years because of climate change, an expert said Sunday, reports UNB.
"An acute food scarcity will be seen in the country with reduced agricultural productivity due to calamities," said Prof Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, member of Nobel Prize winning International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at a press conference at the National Press Club in the city on the day.
Actionaid, an NGO, organised the press conference on 'Climate Change Adaptation: What Women Want'.
Prof QK Ahmad, an eminent economist, urged the people of the country to remain aware of the international aids so that the aid money is properly distributed among the cyclone affected people. "People will have to be conscious so that nobody can make business with the money allocated for those affected by the Sidr," he said.
Referring to the past, he said there are many examples in Bangladesh that a lot of money coming from foreign countries had been embezzled.
"This trend is also found in many other countries," he added.
"An acute food scarcity will be seen in the country with reduced agricultural productivity due to calamities," said Prof Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, member of Nobel Prize winning International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at a press conference at the National Press Club in the city on the day.
Actionaid, an NGO, organised the press conference on 'Climate Change Adaptation: What Women Want'.
Prof QK Ahmad, an eminent economist, urged the people of the country to remain aware of the international aids so that the aid money is properly distributed among the cyclone affected people. "People will have to be conscious so that nobody can make business with the money allocated for those affected by the Sidr," he said.
Referring to the past, he said there are many examples in Bangladesh that a lot of money coming from foreign countries had been embezzled.
"This trend is also found in many other countries," he added.