Rohingyas causing serious social & environmental damages- Prime Minister
The 11 lakh Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Cox's Bazaar have caused serious social and environmental damages in Bangladesh.
This was stated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while addressing a meeting of Bangladesh Virtual Climate Venerable Forum (CVF) with Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) on Wednesday (October 7).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the function as the current President of CVF. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, GCA Chairman Ban Ki-Moon, Presidents and Heads of Government of CVF countries, United Kingdom and Italy (host and co-host of COP), Netherlands, CVF Thematic Ambassador and other international partners, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change joined this event.
The Prime Minister said that today we are facing the challenge of environmental damage in the world of our time.
Adverse effects of climate change are damaging our civilization, destroying our planet and threatening our very existence. We, the CVF leaders and our partners, call on all to take urgent and strong global action to address the climate crisis before the 2020 NDC extension deadline.
Bangladesh has been honored to be elected to lead the Climate Damage Forum for the second time. The CVF represents one billion people in the world's most vulnerable countries. CVF countries suffer the most, despite their negligible contribution to global carbon emissions.
As President, our focus is on continuing global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, accelerating the financing system and climate resilience. We will also focus on hiring a UN Special Reporter on Climate Change and creating a CVF and V-20 joint multi-donor fund.
Bangladesh opened its South Asian Regional Office for the Global Center of Adaptation in Dhaka on 19th September.
My country is facing repeated floods this monsoon, causing massive crop damage and displacing huge numbers of people. The situation was exacerbated by the effects of Super Cyclone Amphan last May and the current Covid-19 pandemic.
The 11 lakh Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Cox's Bazar have caused severe social and environmental damage in Bangladesh.
The Climate Damage Forum (CVF) is an international partnership to reduce global warming, founded in 2009. The Forum serves as a platform for South-South cooperation to bring together participating governments to tackle global climate change. After a successful tenure as CVF President in 2011-13, Bangladesh has again accepted the post of CVF for the year 2020-22.