Green activists and advisers to the interim government on Saturday at a conference demanded justice for climate change victims as it already had impacted life and livelihood of people.
Green organisation Dhoritri Rokkhai Amra organized its two-day long second conference at the capital鈥檚 Liberation War Museum, said a press release.
On the opening day, social welfare adviser Sharmeen Murshid said that if climate change could not be checked, it would destroy the civilisation.
She said that the interim government would take proper measures to combat effects of climate change.
鈥榃e are committed to implementing the law to save our water bodies and the environment,鈥� she said.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter said that agricultural production and life and livelihood of people were highly impacted by climate change.
She explained that for lack of inadequate rain on time production of hilsha declined.
鈥榃e must give priority to agricultural production over the industrial one,鈥� she said.
Dhoritri Rokkhai Amra adviser Mujibur Rahman Hawlader preferred renewable energy over coal-based power.
The event organising committee member, Sharif Jamil, said that Bangladesh was one of the most vulnerable victim countries of the world due to climate change but Bangladesh was not responsible for it.
Asian People鈥檚 Movement on Debt and Development coordinator Lidy Nacpil in a keynote paper said that climate change increased food insecurity and economic pressure on the people.
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Jalal Ahmed and Centre for Policy Research and Development chief executive Shamsuzzoha, among others, spoke at the event.
The conference was scheduled to end today.