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Published: 26 Jan 2021 01:53 AM BdST
Updated: 26 Jan 2021 01:53 AM BdST
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for a more concerted global effort to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. );
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The Bangladesh leader made the call in a virtual address to the Climate Adaptation Conference 2021 in the Netherlands on Monday.
Her country has placed great emphasis on the need to reduce the impact of the global phenomenon and taken the necessary steps to adapt to it, according to Hasina.
But the global adaptation measures are yet to gain the necessary momentum compared to the damage due to a lack of funding and
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Momen for ensuring global climate justice The New Nation
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday said climate justice must be ensured for all countries as number of climate refugees is increasing in socially climate change vulnerable countries like Bangladesh. We have very practical experience of such a scenario having 1.1 million Rohingyas in Bangladesh creating environmental and social havoc, he said.
The minister was addressing virtually the Inaugural Session of Global Gobeshona Conference organized by International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), association with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).
Former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban-ki-Moon, lawmakers Md. Shahab Uddin and Saber Hossain Chowdhury and CEO of Global Centre on Adaptation Prof. Patrick V. Verkooijenon also spoke at the session.
Momen for ensuring global climate justice
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DHAKA, Jan 18, 2021 (BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said climate justice must be ensured for all countries as number of climate refugees is increasing in socially climate change vulnerable countries like Bangladesh.
“We have very practical experience of such a scenario having 1.1 million Rohingyas in Bangladesh creating environmental and social havoc,” he said.
The foreign minister was addressing virtually the Inaugural Session of Global Gobeshona Conference organized by International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), association with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).
Former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban-ki-Moon, lawmakers Md. Shahab Uddin and Saber Hossain Chowdhury and CEO of Global Centre on Adaptation Prof. Patrick V. Verkooijenon also spoke at the session.
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