Seminar on Climate Change
Adaptation, mitigation measures emphasised
Bangladesh as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change should go for climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, speakers said at a seminar in the city yesterday.
University of Liberal Arts and Bangladesh (ULAB) along with environmental consulting company First Climate of Switzerland and UNDP organised the seminar on Climate Change Mitigation and Carbon Trading at a city hotel.
Carbon trading is a system to help reduce carbon emission through buying and selling of carbon. If a nation bought carbon, it would be buying the rights to burn it, and a nation selling carbon would be giving up its rights to burn it. The value of the carbon would be based on the ability of the country owning the carbon to store it or to prevent it from being released into the atmosphere.
Prof Imran Rahman, acting vice-chancellor of ULAB, said carbon trading is an option for Bangladesh to cope with the climate change impacts.
Alexander Luchinger, managing director of First Climate, said Bangladeshi entrepreneurs should offer projects to the European buyers in line with carbon trading and clean development mechanism as provided under the UN climate process.
Khondker Neaz Rahman, project director manager of UNDP-sponsored project called Green Brick, made a presentation on modern brick kilns to produce bricks without carbon emission with modern technology.
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