Need for time befitting climate change strategy stressed
Monday, 9 March 2009
Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandoker Sunday underscored the need for a time befitting climate change strategy and action plan to ensure food, water, energy and livelihood securities endangered by global climate change, reports BSS.
He was chairing the first meeting of a cabinet committee, constituted on February 2 meeting of the council of ministers to review Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan-2008, in the conference room of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak, State Minister for Environment and Forests Advocate Mostafizur Rahman, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud and State Minister for Housing and Public Works Advocate Abdul Mannan Khan, among others, attended the meeting.
AK Khandoker stressed the need for taking into consideration of the indigenous as well as latest knowledge to face global climate change. A large-scale research would have to be made for raising national coping capacity and mitigation strategy to help reduce the risks and vulnerabilities of the community and poorer people, he added.
The planning minister pointed out that ultra poor people of the country including those in the coastal belt are the worst victims due to climate change induced natural disasters.
He was chairing the first meeting of a cabinet committee, constituted on February 2 meeting of the council of ministers to review Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan-2008, in the conference room of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak, State Minister for Environment and Forests Advocate Mostafizur Rahman, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud and State Minister for Housing and Public Works Advocate Abdul Mannan Khan, among others, attended the meeting.
AK Khandoker stressed the need for taking into consideration of the indigenous as well as latest knowledge to face global climate change. A large-scale research would have to be made for raising national coping capacity and mitigation strategy to help reduce the risks and vulnerabilities of the community and poorer people, he added.
The planning minister pointed out that ultra poor people of the country including those in the coastal belt are the worst victims due to climate change induced natural disasters.