Claiming Climate Justice for Bangladesh

The organisation COAST started a national campaign in relation to Bali conference, and organised a national seminar on 24 November. COAST is preparing a national action day on 8th December in Dhaka and also in coastal districts.

COAST released six briefing papers with data on grass root impacts:

• Factors of Climate Change: Global Warming is the Major Ground

• Sea Level Rise and Environmental Refugee in Bangladesh

• Measures to Combat Climate Change: the Koyoto Protocol

• Climate Change and River Erosion in Bangladesh

• Salinity Threatens the World Heritage: The Sundarban of Bangladesh

• Increasing Salinity Threatens Productivity of Bangladesh

Media Coverage - National Seminar

• Daily Star - Pressure developed countries to implement Kyoto Protocol
• New Age - Bangladesh should ask developed countries to compensate
• Financial Express - 1.8m tonnes of crops lost to natural disasters this year
• News Today - Climate change may reduce agri production by 50 pc
• New Nation - Govt urged to prop up for coming disasters

For more information

COAST (Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust)
Dhaka Management and Training Centre (DMTC)
House# 9/4, Road# 2
Shyamoli, Dhaka 1207 Bangladesh
Tel: (+88 02) 812 5181, 815 4673, (+88)0171 401 4203, Fax: (+88 02) 9129395

Email: info@coastbd.org , web: www.coastbd.org