Experts for climate change tolerant adaptations

Experts on Wednesday stressed the need for climate change tolerant adaptations in agriculture, housing and social activities to minimise adverse consequences of climate change, reports UNB.
They said climate change adversities have already their bearings on economy and internal migration.
They also said accurate intervention with proper policy along with appropriate investment also would be helpful to protect the vulnerable community from the hazards caused by climate changes.
Experts came up with the observations while discussing about the climate change issues on Wednesday in a seminar on 'Climate changes adaptation at the river basins: upstream and downstream linkages' at a city hotel.
Bangladesh Center for Advance Studies (BCAS) organised the national level event under 'Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research on Glacier and Snowpack Dependent River Basins for Improving Livelihoods' project.
The research project was supported by UK's Department for International Development and Canada's International Development Research Centre.
HI-AWARE was one of the four consortia of the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) for capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountains and floodplains of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra River basins.
In the programme, at least three technical sessions took place along with three research presentations.
In a session on 'Flood, Erosion and Agriculture' a BUET Professor Mushfiqus Salehin said internal migration is one of a consequence of climate changes which is triggered by the economic helplessness. He said if the resilience adaptation can be taken in agriculture, housing and earning sources, the migration can be decreased.