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Negotiate for compensation to face impact of climate change

Speakers urge govt

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a conference yesterday urged the government to negotiate for compensation with the developing countries to face possible adverse impact of climate change instead of seeking loan.
They said financing for climate change is a right of the people of an affected country.
The two-day conference titled Financing for climate change: Challenges and way forward 2008’ was organised jointly by Unnayan Onneshan and Oxfam Bangladesh at the LGED auditorium in the city.
The speakers said Bangladesh is only getting lots of assurances but not enough fund
They termed the country's climate change strategy and action plan incomprehcnsive lacking a long-term vision.
The speakers said the present climate change strategy' has no relationship with the national development strategy as well as
with sectoral issues including agriculture, industry and infrastructure that are exposed to climate challenges.
They said the paper in its present format should not be presented as a national strategy document in the upcoming 'UK-Bangladcsh Climate Change Conference: Bangladesh Facing the Challenge' to be held in London on September 10, 2008 as it lacks political vision and integrated approach to address the issues in line with the national development policy of the country.
’’The strategic document in its current format is incomprehcnsive and does not reflect the realities on the ground. Prior to finalise the strategies, the government held a couple of consultative meetings which generated a good number of recommendations, but those were not reflected in the document," said Khushi Kabir of Nijera Kori.
Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir of Unnayan Onneshan, who chaired
the session, said the strategy paper is dwarfed by not prioritising the national development plans and priorities.
“We need a lot of consultation before we call the document a strategy paper and we should negotiate on the basis of the principle of compensation," said Syed Rizwana Hasan of Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association.
Ziaul Hoquc Mukta of Oxfam, Bangladesh questioned the ongoing process of adaptation fund.
He suggested for establishment of National Board on Climate Change that will devise a climate resilient long-term development plan, to receive the fund as com pensatory grant and not as aid or loan.
The speakers said the negotiators should lobby for mitigation of carbon emission instead of com miffing to any adaptive strategy to absorb the climate change impact.
They said concerns for climate refugee should also come forward
at any negation process as they arc the most vulnerable group.
Dr M Asaduzzaman, research director of BIDS, presented the keynote speeches at the confer ence.
Some 18 papers on different thematic issues of climate change were presented in the conference where government officials, academics, researchers, civil society members, development activists and scientists spoke.
Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) President Prof Muzaffer Ahmad, Country Representative of IUCN Dr Ainun Nishat, Shircen Kamal Sayeed of UNDP, Director of environment department Mohammad Reazuddin, Dr Rezaul Karim, former chief of environment of UNESCAR Quamru! Islam Chouwdhury of FEJB, Dr Abdul Matin, general secretary of Bapa, and Mirza Shawkat Ali of environment department also spoke at the conference.