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Call to make children aware of climate change issues

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday stressed the need for developing and implementing strategies to create awareness of global climate change issues among children as they are the most vulnerable in this regard.
Saying that children are facing and will face serious risks of uncertainties created by climate change, they urged the concerned authorities to establish mechanisms for promoting climate risks reduction and adaptation.
Children should not be seen only as the victims of recurring natural disasters and climate change, they can be communicators of good practices and active agents of its impacts, they added.
They also put emphasis on capacity building and training programmes on climate change for teachers, parents, civil sendee and grassroots leaders to address the issues
properly.
Children's Television Foundation of Bangladesh (CTFB) organised the roundtable on 'Climate change: Impact on children and awareness' at the National Press Club in the city which was moderated by its executive committee member Pratim Karim.
The concerned authorities should take a long-term management programme to protectenvironment, they underscored.
Participating in the discussion, Director General of the Department of Environment Nojibur Rahman said the government is much sincere to save the environment and it has a strategic plan titled 'Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy Action Plan' to address climate change issues.
It is taking initiatives to make programmes and media campaigns related to awareness building among the children towards environ-
ment, he further said.
“The government has a plan to ply environmentally sustainable transports on the roads as well as to recover footpaths or foot over-bridges to promote safe walking to combat environmental degradation,” he added.
1 Ie went on saying that the people of different sectors should have to show their responsible behaviour towards environment to save the country.
Research Director of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) M Asaduzzaman said, “We have to think about whether the climate change issues could be incorporated in primary or secondary education more explicitly to create awareness among the children about the issue."
“Political commitment as well as regional networks is needed to overcome the challenges of climate change impacts," he added.
M Aminul Islam, assistant
country director of Disaster Management Unit of UNDP, presented a keynote paper where he made some recommendations, including climate responsive and adaptation skill-oriented educational support, to the children to get them prepared for future.
Other recommendations Include ensuring mainstreaming of climate information into education system and development planning and programmes as well as allocation of budget at the local, national and subnational levels in order to make it effect and sustainable.
They also recommended raising public awareness by enhancing the currently limited capacity of the media and NGOs involved in communication to disseminate climate change messages and involving young people in community mapping, planning, monitoring and evaluation education for emergencies.