Politicians, academics and environmentalists on Saturday called on the Awami League-led government to conserve environment to mitigate impacts of climate change.
The call was made from a citizen rally organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city.
Sultana Kamal, vice president of BAPA read out the declaration of the rally, calling on the government to take adequate steps to safeguard environment.
The declaration also urged the government to drop the Rampal and Orion Thermal Power Plant at Rampal in Bagerhat to save the Sunderban, the largest mangrove forest in the world, before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris kicks off on November 30.
The objective of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
The BAPA president, Abudullah Abu Syeed, said that people of the country must act together to maintain the nature’s balance so that Bangladesh’s future generation could live comfortably.
The vice chancellor of Dhaka University, AAMS Arefin Siddique, TIB executive director Iftekharuzzaman, Communist Party of Bangladesh president Mujahidul Islam Selim, BAPA vice president Rasheda K Chowdhury, and Socialist Party of Bangladesh central leader Jahedul Haque Milu, among others, attended the rally.
The call was made from a citizen rally organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city.
Sultana Kamal, vice president of BAPA read out the declaration of the rally, calling on the government to take adequate steps to safeguard environment.
The declaration also urged the government to drop the Rampal and Orion Thermal Power Plant at Rampal in Bagerhat to save the Sunderban, the largest mangrove forest in the world, before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris kicks off on November 30.
The objective of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
The BAPA president, Abudullah Abu Syeed, said that people of the country must act together to maintain the nature’s balance so that Bangladesh’s future generation could live comfortably.
The vice chancellor of Dhaka University, AAMS Arefin Siddique, TIB executive director Iftekharuzzaman, Communist Party of Bangladesh president Mujahidul Islam Selim, BAPA vice president Rasheda K Chowdhury, and Socialist Party of Bangladesh central leader Jahedul Haque Milu, among others, attended the rally.
Source: New Age
