‘Everyone wants to do something with climate change’
‘Everyone wants to do something with climate change’ Dr Ainun Nishat, country representative, IUCN, the World Conservation Union talks to Faizul Khan Tanim on the results of the SAARC Summit and whether Bangladesh will go under water Climate change featured strongly during the recently held SAARC summit. Have there been any fruitful results from that? As a member of the government delegation in the SAARC Environment Ministers Meeting focusing on climate change, I would say it was a very successful and positive meeting. All the eight countries are very serious on issues related to climate change and how to manage the future impacts. After the Bali Conference of Parties of December 15 2007 and meetings of the heads of governments of UN on September 24, 2007, the activities, adaptation, and mitigation to climate change are moving very fast. Mitigation to climate change has now become obligation to all nations, which was previously a compulsion for only the developing countries. In SAARC a...