Impact of climate change in coastal area of Bangladesh and achievement from COP19

The most of the parts of Bangladesh stands on the coastal area. Large number of people lives and directly related with various kinds of occupation associated with sea or coastal. But recently it has faced some problems which were great threat for the existence of the ecosystem as well as the living peoples.

This was happened for climate change. Sea level rise is one of the most reason for the climate change, which impacts suffer Bangladesh very much.

·         Harsh coastal stroms

·         Strong coastal stroms

·         Heavy rain

·         Flooding 

Associate stroms increase dramatically. Recently happened (Sidr, Ayla )  come here with lots of tears for the mangrove forest( Sundarban),its close coastal area.  We can see their ruins in sea site forest of Sundarban. Many trees destroyed, people become homeless for these stroms.

Another most important issue is the flooding of coastal area. The technaf area is going to be flooded where lives almost 2,00000 peoples those are directly related with fishing and agriculture. But they always straggle to survive. Most of the areas are almost go to the belay of sea for sea level rise. The people remain always in a funk.

Another problem is the decrease of soil fertility for inter of saline water into agricultural soil. So many  farmers become helpless by the lost of the land.

 

“To invite all parties or intensity domestic preparations for their intend nationally determine contribution” -  the conclusion by this line from COP19 , we can estimate that the developed country will helps financially, but will be it very much helpful for us when we continuously lost our land?

The Warsaw COP, it was expected, would chart a new paradigm of climate finance including by way of a financing roadmap for climate related activities between 2014 and 2020,in addition to the promised US$ 100 bn/year by 2020. This has not happened. The only solace was that the Adaptation Fund Board had given a drive and managed to obtain commitment for US$ 100 million. The most relevant decision on long term finance was the following:

"Decides to continue deliberations on long-term finance and requests the secretariat to organize in-session workshops on, inter alia, strategies and approaches for scaling up climate finance referred to in paragraph 10, cooperation on enhanced enabling environments and support for readiness activities, and on needs for support to developing countries, from 2014 to 2020. Further requests the secretariat to prepare a summary of the workshops for consideration by the Conference of the Parties and to inform the ministerial dialogue referred to in paragraph.

Bangladesh participated in COP19 not only in negotiation but also in many other activities. The group of about 130 participants from Bangladesh and elsewhere organized a side entitled “climate initiatives of Bangladesh: experience of finance, adaptation and migration”.

 The role of Bangladesh was highly appreciated in CMP plenary for its ratification of second commitment period of Kyoto protocol. The secretary general of UNFCCC appreciated this initiative by Bangladesh very much.

Financial help for the developing country is not the main solution for the impact of climate change, we need less production of  CO2 that can gives us much pleasure as we as to built up a pacifying world.