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Reliable, accessible climate data crucial for resilience

Effective policy action needed to protect people from environmental risks


Bangladeshpost
Published : 15 Oct 2022 09:26 PM

Experts at a regional conference in Dhaka on Wednesday said reliable and accessible climate data is critical for resilient development. They stressed making climate data accessible and creating a path for transformative and integrated collaboration in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.

The world is now going through a situation where the most vulnerable countries which deserve the highest level of priority are failing to access support that is being realised. Major emitters show extreme reluctance on mitigation, which may wreck the international climate regime and put the climate vulnerable countries at peril.

Needless to say, we are already too late to do much to arrest climate change. Even climate scientists are stunned by the pace at which the climatic conditions are being disrupted by the ignorance and deep-rooted selfishness of humanity. The past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The world must act to prevent ever worsening climate impacts and to keep temperature increase to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

The world must act to prevent 

ever worsening climate impacts

 and to keep temperature

 increase to below 1.5°C 

above pre-industrial levels

Developed countries are accountable for the severe consequences of climate change. Frist world countries should provide necessary financial, technological and intellectual support to the clime-vulnerable  countries  to tackle climate change. Developing countries like Bangladesh need a global commitment to face climate challenges.

Bangladesh is recognised internationally for its cutting-edge achievements in addressing climate change. Climate change affects the whole world but because of the geographic location, Bangladesh has long been in the eye of the storm. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. Here the curse of climate change hits in the forms of rising sea level, natural disasters, economic breakdown, prolonged monsoon, frequent changes in weather pattern and temperature and so on. One of the most adverse and prolonged impacts of climate change has been noticed in the form of climate-migration. It is apprehended that climate change may displace some 143 million people by 2050. Experts are of the opinion that by 2050, one in every seven people in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. At the national level, our government should do whatever necessary for increasing the budget allocation to tackle the impacts of climate change. Last but not least, we need to formulate a coherent and research-backed policy to address the adverse impacts of climate change.