Celebrated Climate Justice Week 2012,

Demanding Special steps by UN & Global leaders to make compensation to ensure Climate Justice and save Coastal peoples of Chittagong

Demanding climate Justice 

UN Climate Change Conference will be held at Doha, Qatar on 26^th Nov to 7^th Dec this year. Leaders from all around of the world will take participate the conference to discuss the Kyoto protocol, long term strategies, carbon emission cut, climate funding and green funding and other related issues. Peoples from the most vulnerable country Bangladesh demanding special attention the world leaders to takes special steps to the most affected people. The principal demand from the peoples of Bangladesh to the international community reduce green house carbon gas by 2050 carbon gas must be reduced 95%. It also demands the losses to recover the rural livelihood from the developed nations and they have to compensate the affected countries. Otherwise affected nations will boycott the products from developed nations. These was stated on Human Chain on Climate Justice after gathering and mime memories cyclone of 1970 victims  organized by ISDE Bangladesh with the associate of Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods-CSRL on 12^th November 2012 at Chittagong Press Club Premises. ISDE Bangladesh, Songsaptaque, Humanitwatch, CSDF, ADAB, CRCD, ELLMA and CSRL member organizations initiated the Human Chain to celebrate the Climate Justice Week 2012 demanding Climate Justice were participated by different sections of the community. The speaker says developed countries are responsible for climate change and so many people become climate refugees and they should take the responsibilities. In Bangladesh various natural calamities occurred every day due to carbon gas emission by the developed nations.

a view of human chain

The speakers demanding to ensure free movement relocation, rehabilitation and reintegration of climate forced migrants, enacts separate procurement policy for NGOs & green climate fund management, global green house gas emissions must peak no later than 2015, limit global temperature increases no more than 1.5°C of pre-industrial level reduce atmospheric green house gas concentrations to 350 PPM, reduced emissions at least 45% in aggregate against 1990 levels by 2020, global GHG emissions must be reduced by at least 95% below 1990 levels by 2050, contribute public money for Green Climate Fund, international transports including shipping & aviations must provide adaptation costs, no to World Bank and ADB in climate finance management. Break the Silence: Super Sandy Attacks Us Everyday, Cut Emission Deep: Cut it Now, Ensure Equity, Justice and Transparency in Climate Finance, Include Population and Reproductive Health in Adaptation, Allow climate forced migrants to move to developed countries, Adopt a Legally Binding Protocol to Reduce Emission, Ensure New and Additional Financing to the MVCs, Transfer Technology to LDCs from Developed Countries, Use climate finance for effective development of vulnerable people, Immediate release of climate fund pledged by developed countries, Principles of the ‘green climate fund’ should be reflected into national climate finance, Ensure affected communities and civil society participation in climate finance projects etc

a view of humanchain

Apart from this coastal region of Bangladesh is almost one third of the total land. In generally 18 districts belongs to coastal region. 48 Upazila of 15 districts are most vulnerable to climate change. Already some areas are affected by water logging and saline water intrusion, sea level raising. People are suffering from drinking water scarcity and also from fresh water for irrigation and some areas agriculture production going down. Saline water encroaches by shrimp farmer and the shrimp farming land and paddy land become out-of-cultivation. Common hazards of these areas are cyclone and heavy storm, flood, tidal surge, heavy rainfall, salinity intrusion, short duration water logging. People demands immediate steps to save coastal people from these types of natural calamities. Salinity is become dangerous effects for the coastal community and besides deforestation, low food production may be increased day by day.

a mime presentation on memories of 1970's cyclone 

addressing by S M Nazer Hossain

The gathering was presided by S M Nazer Hossain Executive Director ISDE Bangladesh, while Public Prosecutor of Chittagong Advocate Abul Hashem, M Nasirul Hoque, Ex President Chittagong Union of Journalist, Dabir Uddin Khan, Principal Hazera Tazu University College, Prof Idris Ali, Environmental scientist and professor Chittagong University college, Kazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery, Vice Chairperson, CSDF, Sowrab Barua, Songsaptaque Abu Jaher, ADAB Chittagong Chapter, Nazrul Islam Manna, PARC, District Social Entrepreneur Council leader Jane Alam, Monayem Bappi, Abu Yonus, Ismail Faroque, Women Activist Sayma Hoque, Abida Azad, Zannatul Fedous, Rukshana Akhterunnabi, Consumer Association Chittagong leader Mili Chowdhury, Abdu Rahman Rana, Nasir Uddin Anik, Fishing community federation, NGO activist Shahadot Hoassin, Deluar Hossain and meeting was conducted by Jahirul Islam, CAB Chittagong. Amongst others representative from Bangladesh Engineers Institution Chittagong Chapter,  PROSHIKA, BELA, District Social Entrepreneur Council, CSDF, Sangsaptaque, ADAB Chittagong Chapter, Bangladesh Human Rights Commission, UTSA, PARC, District Social Entrepreneur Council, Consumer Association Chittagong Fishing community federation, AWAC, Mamata, ISHIKA Foundation, Shabujer Chaya, DSK, Divisional Child Rights Forum, Student Facilitator Group, JSUS, ELLMA, Sapnerneed, Shaily, Sapnil Bangladesh.