August 15, 2010
The river Buriganga is about to die.
Leather industry in Bangladesh is one of the most profitable and significantly important sectors no doubt. It is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner of the country contributing about six per cent of total export earnings. At the first sight, it may be viewed as one of the most promising and contributing sectors in the economy. The economic benefit produced by the tannery industry to the economy as well to our society can be measured, but the damage made by this industry to the environment as well as to the society cannot be measured by any scale. Read more...
January 1, 2010
Mother is begging for her child
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October 28, 2009
Dhaka: Bangladesh would require external assistance of at least $10 billion or Tk 70,000 crore to take immediate measures for adapting to climate change effects, according to the latest estimate by the environment and forest ministry.
Terming response to Bangladesh’s urge for international assistance ‘enthusiastic’, the state minister for environment and forest, Hasan Mahmud, on Wednesday signalled a note of caution about the disbursement of foreign aid pledged by various donors.
‘We being the most vulnerable country in all respects deserve assistance, but I am not sure how far the assurance would come through,’ he told newsmen at his ministry while briefing on the prime minister’s participation at the just-concluded climate change conference in Sweden.
The country would need some Tk 35,000 core for dredging the rivers to augment their water flow as part of climate Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, Climate Change, Climate Fund, DhakaClimate Fund
October 26, 2009
When a cyclone destroyed her home two years ago, Shahana Begum joined the swelling ranks of Bangladeshi “climate refugees” who, experts say, could one day overwhelm the capital Dhaka.
Shahana’s family, like more than half a million people in the impoverished nation, lost her shanty home and all her belongings when cyclone Sidr slammed into southern Bangladesh in November 2007, claiming more than 3,500 lives.
“I moved to Dhaka because there was nowhere else to go,” said Shahana, for whom home is now a slum on the dry banks of the capital’s biggest river.
“My husband now works a little as a fisherman up here but we want to take our two daughters back to the south. There’s no home for us there and no real work,” the 25-year-old said.
Almost two years after the cyclone, the United Nations and aid groups say thousands of families like Shahana’s have yet to receive Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, Climate Refugee, Dhaka, IPCCClimate victim
