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UK-Bangladesh Climate Change Confce Sept 10

London meet to underscore need for global emission cut

Devashish off to UK for preparatory activities

BSS, Dhaka
Chief Adviser's Special Assistant Raja Devashish Roy left the city for London yesterday to carry out the preparatory activities ahead of a high-profile UK Bangladesh climate change conference is scheduled to be held in London on September 10.
Officials said a 39member official delegation led by Finance Adviser Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam will join the conference where senior British ministers, officials, scientists and environmental watchdogs will also take pan.
Bangladesh and British officials earlier said the conference aims at reviewing Bangladesh strategy and plan to tackle the climate change being one of the most vulnerable countries with its people already struggling with the impact of climatechange.
The meeting is expected to underscore the need for reduction of global emissions and to support adaptation to climate change while Dhaka and London are likely to launch a partnership towards an ambitious international agreement at Copenhagen in 2009.
Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander will lead the British side at the conference where former chief economic adviser to the UK government and leading climate change analysts Lord Nicholas Stern will also join as the speaker.
"In this conference, we will present a national climate change strategy and an action plan. The plan defines our ways to mainstream climate change issues to development." Devasish Roy told newsmen ahead of his departure at Zia International Airport.
“Bangladesh is obviously one of the most vulnerable countries in
the world in terms of the sea-level rise and salinity, floods and drought. We will not just be pre-senting how vulnerable Bangladesh is, but also be sharing our experience of how we are dealing with such impacts," he added.
UK's DFID Country Representative to Bangladesh Chris Austin said the aim of the conference is to increase international focus on how Bangladesh is adapting to climate change and “how much more needs to be done, both domestically and globally to stop it from worsening".
“Climate change presents serious challenges to Bangladesh's development and must be taken into account in future planning for the country... To this end. the UK will announce a significant package of support to address climate change in Bangladesh," the British official added.
Bangladesh's just formulated climate change strategy identified the country's vulnerability to various potential physical impact of climate change.
The impact the country is feared to face included intense and frequent floods, droughts, sea-level rise, cyclones and storm surges, subsequent human system impact on apiculture, food production, water and energy security and their adverse consequences for the livelihood and health particularly of the poor.
Bangladesh delegation members -- Environment Secretary AHM Rezaul Kabir, Agriculture Secretary Abdul Aziz, civil society leaders Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Kushi Kabir, Dr M Asaduzzaman, Dr Ainun Nishat, Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, Dr Rezaul Karim and Shaukat Mahmud -- are scheduled to leave the city today for London.