Environment activists on Monday stressed that the world must come together to address the adverse impacts of the global climate change.
They said this at a roundtable titled 'current science and technology landscape of climate change and environmental security in the Asia-Pacific region,' organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies at a hotel in the capital.
The countries more affected by the global climate change should be more concerned in this regard, they viewed.
Referring to the CARE International Climate Change Information Centre, Environment specialist J Scott Hauger informed that Bangladesh was one of the countries, for which climate change posed very high risk.
Scott, assistant professor of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, stressed that the developed, underdeveloped and developing countries must come together in handling the adversities brought by the global climate change.
The speakers elaborately discussed how the impacts of climate change would jeopardise the food, water and livelihood securities of the country.
The affected countries should go for extensive research, planning, knowledge management and technical assistance activities to find ways and means to adapt to the changing environment.
Representatives from the German, Filipino and Korean embassies, British and Australian high commissions, UNDP, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute were also present at the programme, chaired by BIPSS president Muniruzzaman.
Source : New Age
