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Climate Summit: Asian Nations Push Wealthy Countries on $100B Annual Fund

Climate Summit: Asian Nations Push Wealthy Countries on $100B Annual Fund
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Damaged By Cyclones, Tidal Surges: Fragile embankments put lives at risk

Against the backdrop of the country s coastal regions facing devastation from cyclones and tidal surges over decades, work of protecting people s lives and livelihoods through strong embankments and afforestation goes slow due to funding and policy constraints. According to officials and water experts, a majority of some 5,700 kilometres of embankments in 19 coastal districts are not sufficient in preventing inundation by high tides, salinity intrusion and tidal surges from cyclonic storms. This is because the embankments around the 139 polders (low-lying tract of land protected by embankments), constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, have been damaged in the recurring natural disasters in the coastal region, which is home to 35 million people 28 percent of the country s population.

We have the laws and institutions – it s time for the country to comply

International Mother Earth Day Raw sewage pouring into the Buriganga, the lifeline of the capital. Photo: Palash Khan Ainun Nishat. Source: Wikimedia Commons Water resources and climate change specialist Dr Ainun Nishat, Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research at BRAC University, talks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the far-reaching impacts of climate change and environmental destruction in Bangladesh and what steps need to be taken to deal with the climate emergency. On this Earth Day, what should we be focusing on in Bangladesh? The theme of this year s Earth Day is Together, We Can Restore Our Earth , and at today s global climate summit, there is a definite focus on climate change and environmental destruction. This year, the Earth Day is being marked with a three-day programme, where day one April 20 started off with a youth summit. I believe this was an apt way to start the events, since we have to engage the youth dir

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