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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Tackling climate change
This year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited world leaders to UN Climate Summit 2014 on 23rd September to galvanise and catalyse climate action. It may not be an exaggeration to say that UN climate summit of September 23 was by far the largest conglomeration for the climate issues. It united world political leaders, government bureaucrats, local government leaders, chief executives of financial institutions and development banks, notable academicians, civil society leaders and cross section of people from different parts of the world on the same platform and provided scope to raise their voices on the cross-cutting issues about the impacts of climate changes.
Per capita carbon emission is still much higher in the developed countries compared to the emerging and developing countries. Many developed countries by replacing old technologies with new green ones have attempted to control carbon emission. But some emerging economies, too, have been registering a rapid increase in carbon emission. So, on the one hand, developed countries need to reduce the level of emissions, while on the other hand, emerging economies need to turn their rapid growth in carbon emission into zero, or even negative growth. A concerted effort from all countries needs to be taken to tackle the impact of climate change effectively.
Shaikh Moniruzzaman
PhD Candidate in Environmental Economics London School of Economics, UK
Hats off to Malala and Satyarthi!
This year's prestigious Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize winner and was awarded this prize for being vocal about children's education in Pakistan; while Kailash Satyarthi was awarded for fighting against child labour, slavery and trafficking in India. Lots of felicitations to them.
Md Zonaed Emran
Working ata bank
Finally, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly which is a great news for all the Asians, especially the South Asians. The whole South Asia is today affected with several problems and the situation may not improve easily.
Though Malala is a well-known figure, yet it is for the first time that we got introduced with Kailash Satyarthi. They both have fought a lot for children's education and rights. Although they are the citizens of the two ever rival countries, their objective was the same. Let us hope that both of them would continue their work for humanitarian causes which would motivate millions of people.
Pradip Das
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