Climate despair of Bangladeshis on display at the foreign ministry

The foreign ministry is hosting a photo exhibition at its premises featuring Bangladesh’s never-ending struggle against climate change.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 3 June 2015, 02:48 PM
Updated : 3 June 2015, 02:48 PM

Bangladesh, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, has remained actively engaged in the global climate negotiations.

The annual loss to climate change-related impacts is estimated between two and three percent of the GDP.

The exhibition, titled "TIME/LIFE", displays the work of a young Bangladesh photographer, Din Muhammad Shibly, known for capturing events that tell the stories of despair caused by climate change.

This comes months before the climate summit in Paris.

In the photo ‘education for none’, the photographer shows students sitting in a classroom that can be devoured by the sea anytime.

One ‘Dudu Mia’, a resident of Shoraitola village in Cox’s Bazar, is shown losing fishing at a place which was green even five years back. He has lost his everything to the seas in Cox’s Bazar.

The show will go on at the main building entrance until June 10, highlighting the challenges posed to lives and livelihoods in southern Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said.

The ministry is hosting the exhibition to highlight the issues of climate change and displacement before the diplomats and the general people.

Bangladesh is one of the nine countries that lead the Nansen Initiative, launched in Oct 2012, by the governments of Switzerland and Norway.

The initiative works on building consensus on the development of a protection agenda addressing the needs of people displaced across international borders due to disasters and the effects of climate change.

Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, who earlier asked global players to bring human rights into the focus of climate change negotiations since the issue hits the poorest of the vulnerable countries, opened the exhibition on Monday.