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Food security to be hard hit by climate change

Experts suggest long-term action plan

UNB. COX'S BAZAR
Experts at a media workshop yesterday suggested formulating a comprehensive long term action plan to face the challenges of climate change since the country's food security will be most affected by this natural calamity.
They said Bangladesh should explore new funds with its own resources and foreign aid to formulate the action plan, which will have to be friendly both to the environment and the industries for sustainable development
‘There will be unusual increase in rainfall, drought, flood, cydones, and river and coastal erosion by the next 15 years. The thing that makes me most worried is the country's food security." Dr Ainun Nishat, country representative of IUCN, told the workshop.
He said that due to the natural calamities, production would be decreased and people's livelihood would also be at stake.
The country's food security should get priority and the sector must be handled with efficiency, he added.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised the two-day workshop on MDGs and Climate Change at a local hotel.
Noted economist Dr Atiur Rahman also attended the opening session of the workshop as a resource person.
Dr Nishat said. “The situation is so critical that if all of the world stop breathing to reduce Carbon Dioxide, even then it will take 40 years to make a pollution-free world."
The climate has changed clearly, causing heavy rainfall in
unusual times, while flood's frequency and intensity has also increased, he added.
I Ie suggested that the government uses eco-friendly technology for development so that the country's industrialisation is not hampered.
He said, "Yes. it is some sort of a difficulty to ensure reduction in the emission of greenhouse gas and at the same time smooth industrialisation. But it is not impossible.
"Bangladesh will have to import the latest technology spending much more money... We will have to use such modem technology that will reduce greenhouse gas emission.”
Dr Nishat said the government would have to take "right and bold decision" to face the challenges of global climate change.
For example, he said, China has
banned brickfields in its territory after 2009 and then only concrete based establishment would be allowed.
Asked what Bangladesh should do just now to face the challenge of climate change, Dr Atiur Rahman said the first task is to assess the scale of the impact and the sectors to be affected would have to be identified.
Gathering the experiences of the grassroots people and expert opinions, Bangladesh must now formulate an action plan to combat the negative impact of die global climate change, he said.
Dr Atiur said the huge fund, needed to implement the action plan, will be materialised from the developed world as they are responsible for the present predicament of the underdeveloped and developing countries.