In a moving, simple and honest video, the Minister talks about his experience from COP 1 right down to Doha this year.
He talks about the importance of involvement of civil society and world leaders in the process, about the vulnerability of his country and yet the incredible resilience of its Governments and its people.
They speak about the importance and urgency of political ambition and action. Bangladesh is a model for adaptation work and important efforts/initiatives are discussed. Climate resilient development, of which Costa Rica, Maldives, Philippines and Bangladesh are advocates by example, is reiterated as the ONLY positive model for development in the current world. Climate change in countries like Bangladesh is now an issue of human rights - at the very least, people have the right to not be permanently displaced.
Mr.S.M.Munjurul Hannan Khan, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, in conversation with Pujarini Sen, Negotiator Tracker from India at COP 18 in Doha.
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Currently working as Advocacy Manager at Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, New Delhi, an organisation working with research, policy and sustaining livelihoods around all things waste. An English graduate, first became engaged with environmental issues working on a short project with the children in the Sunderban delta area. Wants to study more, this time about climate change and related issues.
