Global climate is becoming increasingly unstable, as a result of which the earth’s temperature is constantly increasing. This is leading to various negative impacts including increasing sea levels, which will severely affect humanity as whole.
Owing to climate change, the problem of floods, droughts, and water shortage is becoming severe and the situation may get worse in the future.
These views were put forward by experts, at the concluding session of the two-day-long international seminar on ‘Global Climate Change, Food, and Health Security for Rohingya’. The RU law department had organised the seminar at the senate building. They also said that Bangladesh has a very low and flat topography; 10 per cent of the country is not even a metre above the sea level. It is predicted that if the sea level rises by one metre, 17 per cent area of Bangladesh will be inundated permanently. Twenty million people will be rendered destitute because of this inundation, and 19 of the 64 districts of the country will be directly affected.
On Thursday—the first day of the seminar—some papers were presented on the issue of ‘Where is the Climate Change Issue Heading at this Moment’. Papers were presented by Prof. Timu Koibureva, director of the Arctic Centre of Lapland University in Finland, Nafisa Yesmin, the project coordinator of the Arctic Centre, Prof. Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, the RU Pro-VC, and Dr Qudrat-e-Khuda, head of the law department of City International University.
On Friday—the second day of the seminar—three papers were presented in the three sessions: ‘Proper Human Rights for Rohingya’, ‘Food Security for Rohingya in Bangladesh’, and ‘Health Security for Rohingya in Bangladesh’.
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