Call to ensure zero-carbon based development

Expressing their grave concern over the present adverse impact of climate change, speakers unequivocally called for ensuring zero-carbon based sustainable development.

Adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to the overall living and livelihood conditions in the region including its vast Barind tract.

The discussants made the observation while addressing a bicycle rally initiated by a large number of youths in Rajshahi city on Thursday ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference.

Two development organizations, Pran and Paribartan, hosted the rally aimed at generating public awareness on climate change and its adverse impact.

Senior Journalist Mustafizur Rahman Khan, President of Rajshahi Union of Journalists Rafiqul Islam, local unit president of Women Entrepreneurs of Bangladesh Anjuman Ara and Partner Director Rashed Ibne Obayed addressed the street-corner meeting at Alokar More. The discussants viewed the climate change has been acknowledged as the depletion of natural resources and as a major threat to the humanity in the region and urged the policy planners and others concerned to take immediate effective measures to address the adverse impact of the change caused by global warming.

Mustafizur Rahman Khan said necessary steps should be taken to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change in the region to protect its living and livelihood conditions from further degradation. He mentioned that the ongoing climate change at alarming rates has severely affected every farming productive sector and the agriculture, livestock.