The country is preparing to welcome Baishakh, the first month of Summer and the Bengali calendar, full of heat waves and most of humidity. The intense heat has made the capital city Dhaka and other parts of the country restless.
The suffering of the city dwellers knows no bounds, let alone the birds, animals and people who don’t have a shelter.
The summer is yet to arrive officially, but Mercury has already been soaring between 37-40 degrees Celsius in recent times as the heat wave continues to scorch large swathes of the country.
The extreme and intolerable heat, increased in recent times is the outcome of the climate crisis, caused by most of the developed countries in the world. Bangladesh is becoming a potential victim in the days to come, which has already been seen in the recent surge of heat waves.
Fatal heat waves which are on the rise in recent years, could affect hundreds of millions of people as global temperatures rise, a new study estimates.
The research, led by international climate change scientists, found that Bangladesh, Pakistan and India are most at risk of catastrophic heat events if climate change targets are missed.
A week earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shared her thoughts on Bangladesh being a victim of climate change while addressing the twin celebrations of Mujib Borsho and golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence.
She said, "Global warming and climate change have made the countries of our subcontinent the most vulnerable. We are the biggest sufferers of the consequence of climate change though we are not contributing to this change. We can temporarily protect ourselves through adaptation, but the adaptation process will fail to provide sustainable protection unless the current trend of climate change is restricted."
Every country must make change inside to have a global outcome. Foreign Minister of Bangladesh A K Abdul Momen has said recently, Bangladesh firmly believes that strict implementation of the Paris Agreement is the only way forward for a sustainable future.
“As the first LDC, Bangladesh established a Climate Change Trust Fund where the government has allocated nearly $443 million from its own resources,” A K Momen mentioned.
“We invite developed economies to participate in this multi-donor fund. Global financing mechanisms to address the challenges of climate change are severely under-resourced,” the Minister added.
To add to these initiatives other than Bangladesh, special presidential envoy for climate of US John Kerry is set to come to Dhaka soon, for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate April 22-23 and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year.
