Comprehensive strategies needed for reducing adverse impacts of climate changes
Saturday, 23 January 2010
RANGPUR, Jan 22 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop have underscored the need for adopting comprehensive strategies involving the grass roots level people to reduce the adverse impacts of the ongoing global climate changes.
Union Disaster Manage-ment Committee and RUPANTOR, an NGO, jointly organised the workshop on 'Strengthening Local Government, Creating Civic Awareness and Grass Root Level Participatory Strategies for Reducing Risks of Climate Changes' at Horirampur Union Parishad auditorium under Parbotipur Upazila in Dinajpur Thursday.
The main objective of the workshop was to strengthen local government bodies and overcome risks of climate changes by creating awareness among the public representatives and common people.
The speakers said the country had been experiencing an abnormal climatic situation that had caused a grave concern to human health, habitation, agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, environment and underground water levels.
Major rivers and their tributaries had already dried up now abnormally much ahead of the usual dry season as every year in the recent decades in the country's north- western regions affecting normal human habitations, they added.
Chaired by president of Horirampur Union Disaster Management Committee Ansar Ali Master, the workshop was attended by 50 participants including public representatives, union chairman and members, officials, NGO experts, professionals and elite.
Syedpur area manager of RUPANTOR Ismat Ara Diana presented the main keynote narrating importance of strengthening local government bodies and adopting comprehensive strategies to face the changing climate involving common people at the grass roots.
The speakers said that consequences of the ongoing climate changes might be hundreds of times worse in the future than calamities like super cyclones, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, extreme cold and hot weathers and agricultural productions might get stopped.
This would happen not only in northern Bangladesh, but also throughout the globe with various intensities of unthinkable devastations because of the adverse impacts of the ongoing global climate changes, they said.
Union Disaster Manage-ment Committee and RUPANTOR, an NGO, jointly organised the workshop on 'Strengthening Local Government, Creating Civic Awareness and Grass Root Level Participatory Strategies for Reducing Risks of Climate Changes' at Horirampur Union Parishad auditorium under Parbotipur Upazila in Dinajpur Thursday.
The main objective of the workshop was to strengthen local government bodies and overcome risks of climate changes by creating awareness among the public representatives and common people.
The speakers said the country had been experiencing an abnormal climatic situation that had caused a grave concern to human health, habitation, agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, environment and underground water levels.
Major rivers and their tributaries had already dried up now abnormally much ahead of the usual dry season as every year in the recent decades in the country's north- western regions affecting normal human habitations, they added.
Chaired by president of Horirampur Union Disaster Management Committee Ansar Ali Master, the workshop was attended by 50 participants including public representatives, union chairman and members, officials, NGO experts, professionals and elite.
Syedpur area manager of RUPANTOR Ismat Ara Diana presented the main keynote narrating importance of strengthening local government bodies and adopting comprehensive strategies to face the changing climate involving common people at the grass roots.
The speakers said that consequences of the ongoing climate changes might be hundreds of times worse in the future than calamities like super cyclones, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, extreme cold and hot weathers and agricultural productions might get stopped.
This would happen not only in northern Bangladesh, but also throughout the globe with various intensities of unthinkable devastations because of the adverse impacts of the ongoing global climate changes, they said.