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Cyclone damage may rise fivefold by 2050: Minister

Staff Correspondent
The damages from a single fierce cyclone are likely to increase fivefold to over $9 billion by the year 2050 if additional measures are not put in place in Bangladesh, said Disaster Management and Relief Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali yesterday.
"And this will affect the poorest households the most," he told a daylong national policy consultation workshop on "Bringing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Together: Towards Resilience" at the capital's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
Experts from different government and non-government organisations as well as representatives of donor agencies spoke at the workshop divided into three sessions.
Speaking as chief guest in the closing session, the minister said that to respond to the challenge, new models of cooperation and coordinated policies were required.
Cross-sector coordination between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes and their implementation are needed to protect the future of the climate change victims, said the speakers.
The climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes have come up separately in policies and practices, both globally and locally, they told the workshop, organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh.
But in recent years in Bangladesh, a convergence between this two has come about, as in the country, nine out of 10 disasters are climate-related, they added.
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UNDP Deputy Country Director Robert Juhkam said the focus should be more on long and medium term programmes rather than just short term action plans.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Dr Atiq Rahman, who moderated the technical session, said strengthening local government bodies was required to achieve success in the disaster risk reduction programmes as works had to be done more at the local community levels.
ActionAid Bangladesh Country Director Farah Kabir said coordination
between development and government agencies was required to achieve successes.
Brae University Vice Chancellor Dr Ainun Nishat and DFID Country Representative Sarah Cooke, among others, spoke.