Implementing Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan underscored

City Desk :

Full-length implementation of the ‘Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan’ can be the crucial means of protecting lives and nature from the adverse impact of climate change.
Utmost emphasis should also be given on successful promotion of climate resilient energies so that the gradually rising pressure on fossil fuel could be reduced to a greater extent.
Social watchdogs and development activists made these observations while addressing a human chain-cum-street corner meeting on the twelfth instant at the Chamber Bhaban area in Rajshahi putting forward the demand.

Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED), Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) and Paribartan jointly organized the meeting, reports BSS
Development activist Afzal Hossain, Paribartan Director Rashed Ibne Obayed, Director of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association Advocate Dil Sitara Chuni, Programme Coordinator of Sachetan Society Mahmud Un Nabi, Nurul Alam Masud from BWGED and Mehedi Hassan from CLEAN addressed the meeting.

The discussants mentioned that the present government has adopted the plan in 2021 aimed at transforming Bangladesh into a climate resilient high income country by 2041.
To this end, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the UN Climate Conference in December 2021 has expressed her commitment to ensure 40 percent renewable energy by 2041.