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Dhaka urges int'l community to help combat poverty

BSS, Dhaka
Bangladesh yesterday asked global community to help people of Bangladesh to fight poverty, mostly triggered by natural calamities in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Bangladesh also asked the global community especially the industrialised developed countries to urgently cutback their danger ous greenhouse gas emissions which cause climate change endangering economic growth of the least developed countries like Bangladesh.
"Climate induced disasters arc increasing in frequency and severity in Bangladesh. These as well as other climate related phenomena, erratic behaviour of temperature and rainfall pose severe threat to agriculture and food security,
damage of infrastructures, create uncertainties with water availability, endanger livelihood of people," environment Secretary AHM Reazaul Kabir told opening of the UN Adhoc Working Group (AWG) 5th meeting on future commit ment ot Kyoto Protocol .it the climate change conference at UN ESCAP
"These expose people to malnu trition, disease and morbidity and premature death. All these together challenge the ultimate objective of the UN Climate Change Convention and environmentfriendly economic growth in a sustained manner," he added.
Kabir, leader of an eight member Bangladesh delegation, made the plenary statement expressing deep concern that measures and actions to reduce greenhouse gases should not compromise with present and future
food security concerns.
"Bangladesh wants to record its worries on slow progress made in last two years by AWG under Kyoto Protocol on future commitments. We also notice that there is lack of progress to comply with present commitment by the Annex-1 (industrialised developed) countries. Urgency of the issue should be translated into immediate action," he told the conference.
The Bangladesh delegation leader, who successfully led Bali negotiation and United Nations General Assembly thematic debate on climate change last month in New York, said, AWG should agree on reduction com mittnent without which effective adaptation cannot be designed along with funding and technology deployment.
Bangladesh, Kabir said, believes that to prevent dangerous
anthropogenic climate change, the global average temperature increases much be kept as far below two degree Celsius as possible.
Director General of Department of Environment Dr Khandaker Rashedul Haque, Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand and PR to UNESCAP Mustafa Kamal, experts Dr Ainun Nishat, Muhammad Reazuddin, Dr Nasir Uddin, Quamrul Islam Chowdhury and Mozaharul Alam of Bangladesh delegation actively participated in different sessions and working group meetings oi the climate change conference.
The Bangladesh delegation was also very vocal at the G-77 meeting and raised the concerns of LDCs which should be urgently addressed by the UN Climate Change Convention processes.