Staff Reporter
Decades of development in many countries including Bangladesh will be reversed by climate change, threatening the lives of millions of people, environmentalists and civil society organisations warned yesterday.
Developed countries are responsible for this and they must compensate the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) an amount of $50 billion a year for adaptation to climate change, they said.
The demand was raised at the inaugural function of the Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL), a platform of Oxfam International and its partner organisations, at Sheraton Hotel in the city yesterday. [Read more]