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Involving youths in climate change issue is a must for survival

Speakers say at consultation

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a two-day consultation yesterday said getting the youths involved in climate change issue is not a matter of choice, but it is a must as it is a question of their survival.
The next generation should be involved in managing the issue of climate change for die sake of their survival, they added
The speakers said this at the consultation titled 'Youth engage ment in climate change' at WVA auditorium in die city.
The national consultation was organised by South Asian Youth 5 Environment Network (SAYEN) * Bangladesh in association with 2 Dhakabashi Organisation. Save the f Youth Forum. Youth Against Hungei. DEBTEC, SHAKKHOR Education and Environment Society. Youdi Ending Hunger, Centre for Human Development and Green Voice. UNER .Asia and the Pacific supported the programme.
The speakers further said the youths should be provided with enough knowledge regarding climate change, its adverse affects and should have to give a space to express their opinions and plans regarding the issue
They delineated the climate change issue the sufferings of the developing countries, strategies to handle the issue and how to engage the youth of these counties in die programme.
While presenting the keynote
paper, Development of Biotechnology and Environmental Conservation Centre (DEBTEC) Executive Director Dr Ferdousi Begum said the climate change issue must be turned into a popular cultureissue.
It must be discussed in forums focusing on young people and debates, cartoons and musical programmes on climate change must be organised and aired nanon-ally and the youth should be encouraged to think of themselves on this issue and know that policy makers will listen to them, she added.
The speakers said as the young
people would be die ones to face the brunt of climate change, they would have to identify the steps to protect the earth and to reduce the intensity of climate change.
They can change the attitude towards climate change from asocial and political point, create action groups and implement national projects in a local scale such as neighbourhood and schools with the helpofvariousagencies.
Concurrently, youths can dissem -inate information on climate change in a much more effective way to their peers than the adult ones, they added.
Additional Secretary and Director General Khandaker of Department of Environment Rashedul Haque, Ambassador Rashed Ahmed, UNDP Assistant Country Director (Environ -ment) Aminul Islam and Programme Coordinator Gopal Kumar Jain of SAYEN Secretariat, Centre for Environment Education, India attended the workshop as the special guests.
Bapa TYeasurer Mohidul Haq Khan, Hunger Free World Country Director Ataur Rahman and National Federation of Youth Organisations Secretary General Dulal Biswas also spoke at the consultation.