1 Climate Change Induced Forced Migrants:

2 Civil Society Position of the LDCs

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT AND DISASTER VULNERABILITIES IN THE
COASTAL AREAS OF BANGLADESH

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Building People’s Agenda on ODA Accountability: Bangladesh Perspective

Drowning with Debt or Development

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Equity & Justice Working Group (EJWG) organized A seminar byat national press club on 24th February titled “Impact PRSP and Sovereignty in Development planning”. Seminar is presided by Dr. Tofail Ahmed as moderator and participation of different political leaders GM Quadar (JP), Dr. Hasan Mahmud (Awami League), Dr. Rizvi Ahmed (BNP), NGO official, Civil Society stakeholders.

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Dhaka 04 February 2008: Media Foundation for Trade and Development and Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG) jointly organized a national dialogue on "Food Security in Bangladesh:  Import Dependency Vs. Attaining Food Self Sufficiency’ at the national press club in Dhaka.

Honorable adviser the agriculture ministry of the Care Taker Government of Bangladesh Mr Chowdury Sazzadul Karim, head of FAO representation in Bangladesh Mr Ad Spijkers took part in this national dialogue respectively as the chief guest and special guest. Among others, country renown agricultural economist Mr. Abdus Sattar Mandal,  Dr. Atiur Rahman, Dr Mahbub Hossain B.A.R.C Chairman Dr M. A Razzak, IRRI representative in Bangladesh Mr. Ziaul Abedin, Director SAARC Agricultural Research Council Mr Wais Karim, former ambassador Mr Waliur Rahman and Awami League’s ex - parliamentarian K.M Jahangir participated in the national dialogue and discussed on the possible ways of ensuring country’s food security . 

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Visibly the UN climate road show moves on, without its specific roadmap to Poland in December 2008 and Denmark in 2009. Whether the roadmap would be, it is apparently clear from the Bali talks that the interest of LDCs, who would be the worst victims of climate change, has been grossly ignored by the developed and advanced developing countries which are in the race of increasing GhG emission. And, ironically, Bali conference fails to instigate any political commitment for quantitative reduction of GhG even within the framework of Kyoto Protocol. Although the protocol asked the developed countries to cut carbon emissions by an average of about 5 percent from 1990 level by the period 2008-2012 but for many reasons, especially the negligence of the countries of larger economies, the actual cuts produced by 2012 will be much smaller. Many countries, belonging to the Annex 1 of Kyoto Protocol which were on binding commitments on GhG emission reduction are failed to miss their target by a long way Hence, the 4th IPCC report has added urgency to the quest for deeper cuts saying that ‘ time is not our side, if we want to keep temperature rise below 2 degree C, global emissions need to peak by 2015 and then be reduced by at least 50 percent by 2050 ( from 1990 levels). This means the industrialized countries need to cut their emissions by at least 30 percent by 2020 and by at least 80 percent by 2050. Taking these all into consideration it was expected that the Bali conference would result firm political commitment for GhG reduction for saving the Earth from increasingly climate catastrophes.

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IMF’s Global Crisis: Bangladesh Perspective

1. World Bank: Poverty Business to Carbon Business

2. MDTF for Climate Change Adaptation

3. Devastating Development