Saima for holistic methods to face climate change challenges
CVF Thematic Ambassador for Vulnerability Saima Wazed Hossain on Mon needed making holistic methods to make integrated actions plans taking into consideration the experiences of most vulnerable communities to face the challenges of weather change.
“Climate change issue is usually an enormous global challenge, but if we look in people and how good resilient persons do, what gets results for them, we can actually support the most vulnerable people,” she said.
Saima, also Chairperson of the Bangladesh National Advisory Committee on Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, was addressing a virtual conversation titled ‘CVF-CoP 26 Dialogue: Meeting the Survival Deadline towards Maximal Resilience’ arranged by Bangladesh Superior Commission in London.
She said: “Due to we move forward …I hope that one of the things we increase that looking at the resiliency that the populace in most vulnerable countries really shows up to they have capability to build back batter. We must look at specific communities what do the job them.”
“When speak about climate transformation, we emphasize on reducing the temperature and garden greenhouse gas and those are really important concerns. Within the conversation for our country’s vulnerabilities problem of the population, we overlook the stories of people,” she added.
Saima said the increased loss of infrastructures, damage to livelihood and lack of all human being support system and eco-system, everything influence and increases those people who are even even more vulnerable due to their cultural and the religious believe, as a result of the disability, health issues.
She said this is an opportunity in the years ahead in terms of realize going right through this global pandemic that no issue can be separate unless “we treat it holistically and looked at each of the aspects.”
“Wellbeing certainly is a crucial part of the and I think in a whole lot period we lose the area of the conversation. By health, I indicate both physical and mental wellness. In addition, one more thing we often forget is problem of disability of individuals living with disability not merely physical, but those have difficulty in interaction,” she said.
Point out Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Md Shahriar Alam attended the virtual dialogue as the chief guest while Environment Vulnerable Forum (CVF)’s all associates who are superior commissioners and ambassadors of different countries found in London participated found in the dialogue and gave their tips for Cop-26 to be held within the next year.
Lord Zac Goldsmith, UK Minister for Pacific, the surroundings and CoP 26, joined the work as guest of honor even though Prof. Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, CEO, Global Focus on Adaptation and Prof. Dr. Saleemul Huq Couch, CVF Professional Advisory Group and Director of the International Center for Climate Modification and Advancement, addressed the function, amongst others.
Abul Kamal Azad, Particular Envoy of Environment Vulnerable Discussion board Presidency, gave a presentation on CVF while Bangladesh Superior Commissioner in London Saida Muna Tasneem moderated the digital dialogue.
Saima said it really is high time the CVF-COP26 climate discussion and the Glasgow final result papers formally acknowledge and politically commit to address health insurance and climate change concerns and the affect of extreme climatic events on mental wellness of the very most vulnerable and people with disabilities.
“We need COP26-CVF partnership to rally behind the CVF’s require a dedicated UN Particular Rapporteur for climate transformation and human legal rights to uphold human legal rights of the most vulnerable of environment victims,” she said.
Shahriar Alam said ranked number seven among Global Environment Risk Index 2020’s most at risk countries despite having a negligible carbon footprint, Bangladesh remains among the worst damaged victims of global emissions.
“We lose 1 percent of our GDP yearly due to climate modification while by 2050, rising sea levels will submerge some 17 percent of Bangladesh’s coastal lands and displace about 20 million persons. We also continue steadily to sponsor 1.1 million forcibly displaced Rohingya persons from Myanmar at a steep cost of our ecology,” he said.
Yet Bangladesh has made amazing improvement in both adaptation and mitigation steps with 5 and 15 percent voluntary and assisted NDCs beneath the extraordinary climate-leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, champion of the UN “Champions of the planet earth” Award, he added.
The state minister for foreign affairs said Bangladesh adopted the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 and established our first US$400 million Climate Change Trust Fund from our very own resources.
“This season, we are celebrating the birth centenary of Father of the country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and planting 10 million saplings nationwide to aid the climate resilience action,” he said.
Shahriar Alam said in this important year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has also declared the ‘Mujib Planetary Prosperity Decade’ and action plan, that may chart a low-carbon pathway to deliver SDGs while making our economy more environment resilient, and decarbonize.
“Our Parliament declared a good “Planetary Emergency” and called on the globe to work “on a war-footing’’ to avoid climate transformation,” he said.
He said Bangladesh has assumed the Presidency of the Environment Vulnerable Forum this season for another term under the visionary leadership of Primary Minster Sheikh Hasina, when all of the CVF countries are facing the gravest global challenges of the times, the weather crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
