DHAKA, Dec 8, 2021 (BSS) - A Two-day long international conference on 
'Emerging Population Issues and Sustainable Development Goals' held at Dhaka 
University.   

  Dhaka University (DU) Population Sciences department in cooperation with 
UNFPA Bangladesh organise the conference from December 7 to December 8 at 
university's Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury senate Bhaban, said a press release.   

   DU Pro-VC (Administration) Dr Muhammad Samad virtually attended the 
closing session as the chief guest with Chairman of DU Population Sciences 
department Dr Md Rabiul Haque.  

   While addressing, Dr Samad said globally emerging population issues like 
demographic transition, epidemiological transition, demographic dividend, 
internal and international migration and climate change have become important 
concerns among researchers, policymakers and development partners due to 
their diverse socioeconomic, environmental and demographic implications.  

  Addressing these core issues is significantly important to accelerate human 
development and achieving our Vision 2041 and SDGs by 2030, he added.   

  This international conference has highlighted and explored different forms 
of emerging population and sustainable development goals related issues in 
the global context and Bangladesh, he furthered.  

  Samad said, "Now, we are living in the world of almost 7.8 billion 
population where the world population is projected to reach 9.9 billion by 
2050.This increasing trend of the human population is really a big challenge 
to achieve SDGs ensuring quality life for all of us."  

  However, Bangladesh is one of the promising countries towards attaining the 
targets of SDGs on action to bring an end to hunger and reducing poverty, he 
added.   

  Mahbub-E-Elahi of UNFPA, Bangladesh addressed the ceremony as special guest 
while associate professor of Population Sciences department A H M Kishowar 
Hossain presents Rapporteur's Report.