{"id":660,"date":"2009-12-07T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:24:27","slug":"for-bangladesh-there%e2%80%99s-no-more-time-for-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/for-bangladesh-there%e2%80%99s-no-more-time-for-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"For Bangladesh, there\u2019s no more time for talk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHAIN REACTION Climate change is putting jobs at risk in Bangladesh<\/p><\/div>\n

In Bangladesh, where much of the country\u2019s population lives at sea level on the flood-prone alluvial plains of major rivers flowing from the Himalayas, a lengthy discourse about the impact of climate change can seem a little indulgent.<\/p>\n

\"Workers<\/p>\n

On 5 December, 240 Bangladeshi workers representing the country\u2019s national union centres formed a \u201cworkers\u2019 chain\u201d in front of the National Press Club in the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n

The Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE), which organised the event, said the unions wanted to draw attention to their concerns about \u201cnegative impacts of climate change in employment of livelihood of the working people at different vulnerable sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unions want the Bangladesh government\u2019s delegation to the Copenhagen climate change summit, which kicked off this week, to support inclusion in any agreement of a \u201cjust transition\u201d<\/a> clause proposed by global unions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The government of Bangladesh<\/a> said it will ask for at least 15 per cent of any money which rich countries pledge at Copenhagen to help developing nations cope with climate change.<\/p>\n

Environment minister Hasan Mahmud said Bangladesh was entitled to a big share of the money because it was the country most vulnerable to climate change. He said 20 million Bangladeshis will be displaced if the sea rose by a metre.
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\nThe minister said that in addition to the millions who would be displaced by rising sea levels, many more would be affected if glaciers in the Himalayas melted due to global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe population of our one coastal district is bigger than the entire population of all island countries and in that consideration at least 15 per cent of any climate fund should come to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Bangladesh, where much of the country\u2019s population lives at sea level on the flood-prone alluvial plains of major rivers flowing from the Himalayas, a lengthy discourse about the impact of climate change can seem a little indulgent. On 5 December, 240 Bangladeshi workers representing the country\u2019s national union centres formed a \u201cworkers\u2019 chain\u201d in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[117,115,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}