Climate change: LDCs should be better prepared

LDCs must strengthen their bargaining capacity through acquiring knowledge on different aspects of climate change issue to avert its possible harmful impacts

Bangladesh as one of the worst victims of climate change must build its capacity to face the ongoing climate change. This Bangladesh can do taking with her the other victim countries climate change. Even though carbon emission by the least developed countries (LDCs) including Bangladesh is negligible compared to the developed nations who are mainly responsible for global warming, the fact is because of the resources constraints these countries are failing to cope with the disasters for which climate change is directly and indirectly responsible. 
In Bangladesh, we can remember the trails of devastation wrought by Aila and Sidr, super cyclones that visited Bangladesh several years ago. Due to these cyclones, many people got killed, their habitats and livelihood destroyed. Thousands of people from the coastal region where these cyclones visited migrated to already over crowded urban centres. These people are climate change refugees and for addressing their problems of rehabilitation and settlement, countries like Bangladesh need large funds which they lack.
Against this backdrop, what climate change experts said at a press conference on ‘COP 22 Climate Change Conference: Expectation of civil society’ yesterday in the capital is right—the LDCs must strengthen their bargaining capacity through acquiring knowledge on different aspects of climate change issue to avert its possible harmful impacts. 
No long ago, Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal informed that one percent of Bangladesh’s total GDP is being lost due to climate change. When such a grim reality is facing Bangladesh in the face, it cannot remain idle or making fruitless efforts. Every year there is an allocation in the budget for fighting climate change, but the ground reality is that the situation is getting from bad to worse. We are yet to see any positive change. 
The LDCs ought to create pressure on the developed countries to extend their financial and technical supports to climate vulnerable countries. There is a Green Climate Fund (GCF) within the framework of the UNFCCC founded as a mechanism to assist developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices to counter climate change. The fund is supposed to raise climate finance of $100 billion a year by 2020. The LDCs should effectively monitor that each year the rich nations contribute to this fund their due share. 
But what is the plan beyond 2020? Should it come to a stop? If the LDCs do not urge the developed nations for creating a permanent fund for climate change mitigation by the poorer and smaller countries, these largest carbon emitters would not do this on their own.

 

Climate change: LDCs should be better prepared

LDCs must strengthen their bargaining capacity through acquiring knowledge on different aspects of climate change issue to avert its possible harmful impacts

Bangladesh as one of the worst victims of climate change must build its capacity to face the ongoing climate change. This Bangladesh can do taking with her the other victim countries climate change. Even though carbon emission by the least developed countries (LDCs) including Bangladesh is negligible compared to the developed nations who are mainly responsible for global warming, the fact is because of the resources constraints these countries are failing to cope with the disasters for which climate change is directly and indirectly responsible. In Bangladesh, we can remember the trails of devastation wrought by Aila and Sidr, super cyclones that visited Bangladesh several years ago. Due to these cyclones, many people got killed, their habitats and livelihood destroyed. Thousands of people from the coastal region where these cyclones visited migrated to already over crowded urban centres. These people are climate change refugees and for addressing their problems of rehabilitation and settlement, countries like Bangladesh need large funds which they lack. Against this backdrop, what climate change experts said at a press conference on COP 22 Climate Change Conference: Expectation of civil society yesterday in the capital is rightthe LDCs must strengthen their bargaining capacity through acquiring knowledge on different aspects of climate change issue to avert its possible harmful impacts. No long ago, Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal informed that one percent of Bangladeshs total GDP is being lost due to climate change. When such a grim reality is facing Bangladesh in the face, it cannot remain idle or making fruitless efforts. Every year there is an allocation in the budget for fighting climate change, but the ground reality is that the situation is getting from bad to worse. We are yet to see any positive change. The LDCs ought to create pressure on the developed countries to extend their financial and technical supports to climate vulnerable countries. There is a Green Climate Fund (GCF) within the framework of the UNFCCC founded as a mechanism to assist developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices to counter climate change. The fund is supposed to raise climate finance of $100 billion a year by 2020. The LDCs should effectively monitor that each year the rich nations contribute to this fund their due share. But what is the plan beyond 2020? Should it come to a stop? If the LDCs do not urge the developed nations for creating a permanent fund for climate change mitigation by the poorer and smaller countries, these largest carbon emitters would not do this on their own.