DHAKA NEWS
Lawmakers have launched a unique network to engage parliaments and their members across the world in advocating policies that help climate victims address global warming challenges.
The declaration came on Friday at the closure of a three-day International Meeting of Parliamentarians on Climate Change: Beyond COP 17 at Hotel Radisson in the capital.
The new platform for the MPs titled “Parliamentarians for Climate Justice” will promote strategic alliances of parliaments and parliamentarians, working through cross-party groups and parliamentary networks, sharing knowledge, information and best practices.
“The network will be unique in that it will focus its resources on the people most vulnerable to climate change – wherever in the world they may be,” said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP, chairperson of All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change.
Bangladesh’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest organised the meeting with support from UNDP.
Parliamentarians from Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, the East African Legislative Assembly, Indonesia, the Maldives, Mali, the Netherlands, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Scotland, Senegal, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda attended the meeting.
Reading out the “Dhaka Parliamentary Declaration”, Saber Hossain Chowdhury said all the MPs endorsing the Declaration can join the network whose action plan and statement of principles will be elaborated by the steering committee by the end of April 2012.
Its immediate actions will include forming a steering committee to decide policy priorities and seek funding to organise gatherings and employ a small secretariat, he said.
The parliamentarians at the meeting committed to collaborate across party-political boundaries to work for the welfare of those most affected by climate change and establish parliamentary committees to monitor and oversee climate-related policies.
The members of the parliament will work for their capacity building, develop integrated local, national and regional frameworks for climate change adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction, prioritising funding for energy efficiency projects and renewable energy, says the declaration.
The declaration came on Friday at the closure of a three-day International Meeting of Parliamentarians on Climate Change: Beyond COP 17 at Hotel Radisson in the capital.
The new platform for the MPs titled “Parliamentarians for Climate Justice” will promote strategic alliances of parliaments and parliamentarians, working through cross-party groups and parliamentary networks, sharing knowledge, information and best practices.
“The network will be unique in that it will focus its resources on the people most vulnerable to climate change – wherever in the world they may be,” said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP, chairperson of All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change.
Bangladesh’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest organised the meeting with support from UNDP.
Parliamentarians from Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, the East African Legislative Assembly, Indonesia, the Maldives, Mali, the Netherlands, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Scotland, Senegal, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda attended the meeting.
Reading out the “Dhaka Parliamentary Declaration”, Saber Hossain Chowdhury said all the MPs endorsing the Declaration can join the network whose action plan and statement of principles will be elaborated by the steering committee by the end of April 2012.
Its immediate actions will include forming a steering committee to decide policy priorities and seek funding to organise gatherings and employ a small secretariat, he said.
The parliamentarians at the meeting committed to collaborate across party-political boundaries to work for the welfare of those most affected by climate change and establish parliamentary committees to monitor and oversee climate-related policies.
The members of the parliament will work for their capacity building, develop integrated local, national and regional frameworks for climate change adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction, prioritising funding for energy efficiency projects and renewable energy, says the declaration.
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