Bangladesh Adviser for Ambiance, Wooded enviornment and Climate Alternate Syeda Rizwana Hasan as of late told the global community to legally recognise water, land, meals and the ambiance.
Regulating global exchange and the transboundary circulation of agrochemicals via due diligence in manufacturing processes is important as neatly, she highlighted at the “Formal Statements” session of the continuing UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
She emphasised pressing global action to fight desertification and possess environmental justice.
She acknowledged public toughen for financing, expertise transfer, and ability building is key, nonetheless such toughen can even simply still no longer extend to water-intensive industries or unsustainable agricultural practices.
The adviser acknowledged as a decrease riparian nation, Bangladesh seeks regional cooperation for river basin administration and hopes that UNCCD COP16 will handbook global and nationwide political visions in direction of achieving a land degradation-neutral world.
Specializing in Bangladesh’s challenges, she acknowledged the country must feed 170 million of us with accurate 14.8 million hectares of land, regarded as one of many enviornment’s lowest per capita land availability.
Rizwana warned that rising sea ranges (SLR) could well well consequence in the inability of 1-third of the country’s land mass by 2050, exacerbating meals insecurity.
Low expend of groundwater and agrochemicals for prime-yield rice manufacturing has additionally triggered severe land contamination, she acknowledged.
The ambiance adviser shed mild on Bangladesh’s vulnerability as an brisk delta.
“Annual river erosion displaces over 1,000,000 of us, while the country loses 2.6% of its forests yearly—double the global common,” she acknowledged.
She acknowledged coastal salinity has surpassed severe ranges all the design via the final three decades, lowered water flows in 57 transboundary rivers attributable to upstream diversions and contain aggravated water-logging and river float factors, intensifying the nation’s challenges.
Rizwana additionally told the global community to behave collectively for environmental and climate justice, addressing the sizable finance hole in adaptation.
“Recognising the bounds to adaptation, formidable mitigation action is imperative to keep the planet and restrict temperature upward thrust to 1.5°C,” she acknowledged.
Bangladesh reaffirmed its commitment to working with the global community for a sustainable future, calling for actionable outcomes from COP16 to fight desertification and be obvious climate resilience.
