RAJSHAHI, Sept 24, 2024 (BSS) - Social watchdogs at a human chain meeting here today unequivocally called for adequate investment to face the adverse impact of climate change in the region, particularly in its vast Barind tract.

The adverse impact of climate change at alarming rates has severely affected every sector, including agriculture and its diversity, creating a real threat to food production and public health.

Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED), Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) and Paribartan jointly organized the meeting at the Chamber Bhaban area ahead of the two-day annual meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to be held at Samarkand in Uzbekistan from tomorrow.

CLEAN Campaign Officer Mahdiul Islam, Paribartan Director Rashed Ibne Obayed and its Programme Coordinator Soma Hassan, Organizing Secretary of Jatiya Adibashi Parishad Subhash Chandra Hembrom and Manager of Ain O Shalish Kendra Hasibul Hassan, among others, addressed the meeting.
 
Highlighting the aspects of promoting renewable energies the discussants urged the AIIB for more investment to the renewable energy sectors that can be the crucial means of facing the adverse impact of climate change.

They clarified the adverse impact of climate change caused by global warming has been posing a serious threat to the overall living and livelihood condition in the region.
 
Climate change has been acknowledged as the depletion of natural resources and as a major threat to the humanity in the region and the policy planners and others concerned to take immediate effective measures to address the adverse impacts.

Besides, adverse impacts of climate change have triggered recurrence of natural calamities in the region posing a serious threat to the farming of winter crops including vegetables and the living and livelihood conditions of farmers community in the region.