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Climate Change Fund

Form special monitoring cell to avoid its misuse

Speakers tell Bapa seminar

Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh should not accept money from the climate change fund if it is given as loan because the country is not responsible for climate change, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday.
They also suggested forming a cell that would monitor the fund management to avoid its misuse.
The seminar titled International assistance in combating climate change: Context, effectiveness and accountability' was organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (Bapa) ahead of the World Environment Day on June 5 at the Planning and Development Academy in the city.
Zakir Hossain, chief execu-tive of an NGO Nagorik Udyog, said the phenomenon of dimate change was something abstract to us a fewyears ago but its catastrophic consequences are now dear to us.
“Severe cyclones are hitting our coasts too often now and tfi£s£ giVe Us the warning of bigger catastrophes in future," headded.
Kazi Wahiduzzaman, executive director of another NGO Nabolok, said the situation at the southern belt of the country has been deteriorating day by day, and people are now forced to migrate from the region.
He said the country needs climate change fund and it should be spent for proper adaptation plan.
Abdul Hai Majumder, national committee member of Bapa, said the West would be benefited from climate change as fertile land would be recovered if glaciers are melted.
"So people who would become landless in this part of the world should migrate to the West,” he added.
The seminar was presided over by Badiul Alam Majumder, country director of Hunger Project, while Mizanur Rahman Bijoy presented the keynote paper.
Earlier in another seminar the speakers said the government should adopt a pro-people' arid 'environment-friendly energy policy prioWis-
ing tire national interest first.
Presiding over the seminar Prof Anu Mohammad of Jahangimagar University said the government should ensure hundred percent ownership of people in national resources.
He said national institutions in the energy sector should be revived which were damaged due to negligence of the past governments.
The government should also ban export-oriented deals with foreign companies by enacting new laws, he added.
Engineer Enamul Haque gave some suggestions to die government to ensure energy security.
He said the government should encourage solar energy and look for bio-gas production.
He urged the government not to set up more than one nuclear power plant as it might have some bad effects on environment.
Prof Shamsul Alam, an energy expert, presented the keynote paper at the geirtiriAr.