The impact of climate change has now become the biggest challenging issue in the world. Due to this, global temperatures are rising and countries are facing various disasters. But the necessary financial and technical support is not available to deal with this disaster. Historically, countries that have become developed or rich countries through the industrial revolution and have emitted a lot of carbon are mainly responsible for this climate change. Therefore, to address the challenges of climate change, the Conference of Parties (COP) has been held every year since 1995 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The main objective of which is to help the rich or carbon emission countries to reduce the damage caused by climate change by providing financial assistance to the least developed and vulnerable countries due to climate change. This time, the 29th COP conference is being held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a country on the Caspian Sea. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor to the interim government, participated in this global conference as the representative of Bangladesh.
Although the rich or industrialized countries are supposed to provide money to the LDC countries or least developed countries to alleviate their misery, they have repeatedly broken their promises. Most of what they have given is loan money. Although it is supposed to be given as grants. This year is no exception. Where the least developed countries gave their demand of 1.3 trillion, but they have set a limit within 300 billion. They have not promised to give the entire amount as grants.
Representatives from 198 countries of the world attend this conference every year. They come to inform the world about their misery due to climate change. They put pressure on policymakers in various ways.
SDS attends this conference as an accredited institution of UNFCCC. Mr. Rabeya Begum (Executive Director, SDS) and Mr. BM Kamrul Hasan (Director, MF, SDS) participated in the conference this year. They organized two side events to highlight the damage caused by the recent floods in Bangladesh and the other to highlight the displacement & migration in Bangladesh due to river erosion and the resulting economic & non-economic losses. During this event, she presented the results of a study on women and adolescents affected by erosion in Naria and Jajira upazilas of Shariatpur district, Bangladesh. CANSA, CPRD and SDS jointly conducted the research in 2020.
In addition, DIU, CPRD, YPSA and SDS jointly discussed the displacement and migration caused by climate change in Bangladesh at the side event, so that donor countries come forward to address the crisis and continue economic cooperation.
