Children seek world leaders' help to combat climate change
Thursday, 24 December 2009
DU Correspondent
Climate change threatens our lives, families and future. We have already faced its effects. Our future is at risk. We demand the governments worldwide to do something to protect us from the terrible impacts of climate change.
Four Bangladeshi children, who joined the Children's Climate Forum (CCF) meeting held in Copenhagen from November 28 to December 4, made the disclosure of their suffering due to climate change at a media briefing in UNICEF Bangladesh Office in the city Wednesday.
The four children-Miti Annesha from Rajshahi, Tariqul Islam from Bhola, Fatema Akhter from Noakhali and Arif Rahman from Satkhira-attended the CCF conference in cooperation with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The city of Copenhagen and the Danish National Committee for UNICEF organised the CCF conference a week before the COP15 and brought together young people aged 14 to 17 from 44 countries to share ideas for responding to the challenges posed by climate change.
The four Bangladeshi children told journalists that they had detailed the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh before the world community and submitted the declaration of the CCF conference to COP15 President Connie Hedegaard who took it to the world leaders in the climate summit.
"Our communities are deprived of clean drinking water, denied access to education and vulnerable to disease every time it floods. Our plates are empty due to draught. Our futures is at risk and we demand something to be done," Bangladeshi child Tariqul Islam said citing his speech in the CCF meeting.
Climate change threatens our lives, families and future. We have already faced its effects. Our future is at risk. We demand the governments worldwide to do something to protect us from the terrible impacts of climate change.
Four Bangladeshi children, who joined the Children's Climate Forum (CCF) meeting held in Copenhagen from November 28 to December 4, made the disclosure of their suffering due to climate change at a media briefing in UNICEF Bangladesh Office in the city Wednesday.
The four children-Miti Annesha from Rajshahi, Tariqul Islam from Bhola, Fatema Akhter from Noakhali and Arif Rahman from Satkhira-attended the CCF conference in cooperation with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The city of Copenhagen and the Danish National Committee for UNICEF organised the CCF conference a week before the COP15 and brought together young people aged 14 to 17 from 44 countries to share ideas for responding to the challenges posed by climate change.
The four Bangladeshi children told journalists that they had detailed the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh before the world community and submitted the declaration of the CCF conference to COP15 President Connie Hedegaard who took it to the world leaders in the climate summit.
"Our communities are deprived of clean drinking water, denied access to education and vulnerable to disease every time it floods. Our plates are empty due to draught. Our futures is at risk and we demand something to be done," Bangladeshi child Tariqul Islam said citing his speech in the CCF meeting.