Adopt more environment-friendly policies: Climate activists 

Calling on the government to cancel remaining coal-based projects, climate activists have urged policymakers to adopt more environment-friendly policies.

They also called for better coordination for decisions on energy, climate change and sustainable developments among the policy makers, scientists, researchers and mass people.

The calls were made on Friday during a press conference, jointly organised by Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA), and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) at the Dhaka Reporters' Unity.

In the interest of the country and its people, decisions should be taken through discussions among scientists and researchers, they said.  

"In our conferences, we try to bring them together. We hope it is possible to find solutions to all problems through collective efforts," BAPA President Sultana Kamal told the press conference on annual preparation for energy, climate change and sustainable development. 

Dr Nazrul Islam, in his keynote speech, thanked policy makers for scrapping 10 coal-based power projects and urged them to cancel similar projects, which are not environment friendly.

BAPA and BEN, in their upcoming annual conference, will focus on new challenges of the country's energy sector. 

The conference preparation committee Member Secretary and BAPA General Secretary Sharif Jamil moderated the event, which the BAPA Vice-President Professor M Firoz Ahmed and Dr Ahmed Badruzzaman attended virtually. 

Sharmin Murshid and Khandaker Golam Moazzem, members of the conference preparation committee, Dr. Mahmudur Rahman, MS Siddiqui, Ibnul Sayeed Rana, Raoman Smita and Dewan Nurtaj Alam were present in the media call among others. 

In collaboration with Stamford University, the BAPA-BEN yearly conference is slated on 11-12 February 2022.