Bangladeshis know how to cope with disasters

Bangladeshis know how to cope with disasters

par | Sep 28, 2015 | Environment

Hasina has received top UN environmental honnor.

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People of Bangladesh have learnt how to tackle climate change, disasters and survive, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said after receiving the UN’s highest environmental honour – ‘Champions of the Earth’.
The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner handed over the award to her at a programme in New York on Sunday, local time.
“This award is a recognition of spirit and resilience of our people in fighting climate changes,” Hasina said, dedicating the award to the people of Bangladesh.
UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner hands over the Champions of the Earth award to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at an event in New York on Sunday.  [/su_column] [/su_row]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the UN’s highest environmental honour – Champions of the Earth – in recognition of Bangladesh’s initiatives to meet the challenges of climate change. UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner handed over the award at an event in New York on Sunday.
The UN had said the award, in the Policy Leadership Category, recognised ‘Bangladesh’s first-off-the-block initiatives under Prime Minister Hasina’s government to prepare the ecologically fragile country for the challenges it faces from climate change’.
Since its introduction in 2004, the Champions of the Earth award has recognised 67 laureates in the categories of policy, science, business, and civil society.
The other winners of 2015 are the National Geographic Society (Science and Innovation); Brazilian cosmetics firm Natura (Entrepreneurial Vision); and South Africa’s Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (Inspiration and Action).

Lovlu Ansar, New York Correspondent,  bdnews24.com  – Published: 2015-09-28 10:28:41

 

Environmental Migration in Bangladesh

Environmental Migration in Bangladesh

par | Août 7, 2015 | Bangladesh

Keep people in their place.

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Masud Sheikh from Koyra village of Khulna, whom I met first on May 27, 2009, two days after cyclone Aila hit the southwest coast, lost everything. He was looking for shelter, food, clothes for him and his family. A year later, I met him pulling a rickshaw at the Khulna Sonadanga Bus terminal.
“I came here a week after Aila. As you know, due to Aila, I lost everything- my home, my farm and even my livestock. I went to the ward members, chairman, NGOs, but did not get enough support. My brother-in-law lives in Sonadanga, he told me to come to Khulna. I am not educated, but I am the only earning member of my six member family. I kept my daughter with my wife in the village. She is going to school there. My son is with me and is going to school here. After school he works at a tea-stall near the slum where we live. My wife works in a biscuit factory. I’m pulling a rickshaw. My income is very poor, I hardly earn Tk300 to Tk350 per day. I don’t earn the same amount of money every day. If my wife’s job becomes permanent, we will settle here.”     [/su_column] [/su_row]