Priva Mridha, who arrived in 2007, still remembers Cedar, which caused heavy destruction in Bangladesh. The mother of a child took shelter in a local school, leaving her cattle to avoid the storm, which was later converted into a temporary shelter.
He said that he returned home and saw that his cattle were dead or flooded in the flood water.
Marida is a resident of Jayakha village. This area of the Mongla sub -distance near the port is decreasing rapidly at risk of climate change.
This national situation is normal in Bangladesh. More than 5 percent of the country’s 5 million million population lives in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta.
Many of these people have settled on the land with a height of less than 2 meters above sea level, causing them to be at risk of destruction of cyclones and storm waves.
UN Environment Program (UNEP) and colleagues have begun a project to build such a house to help community to deal with aquatic catastrophe to deal with these risks
So far, the construction of 37 houses has been completed in collaboration with UNEP’s Copenhagen Climate Center and International Development Agency BRAC.
One of these houses also came from Prova Mrida.
About $ 12,000 expensive this house is able to avoid flooding and is capable of carrying strong winds of cyclone.
It has a raining water collection system for safe drinking water, solar panels on the roof and a cattle school inside for electricity supply. This house also serves as an emergency shelter and has an advantage of having 40 people.
BRAC’s climate change director Muhammad Liaquat Ali has said that these shelters are built in people’s homes. In such situations, when the roads are submerged or blocked in the flood, there is no risk of moving miles away with older, young or livestock.
Climate change is absolutely now
UNEP’s adaptation and capable branch head of the branch Mir Atlah said that it is very important to have this national home in Bangladesh, where more than 7,000 cyclone shelters are expected to be needed by 2021, by 2021.
According to Muhammad Liaquat Ali, climate change is not a future threat to Bangladesh and many other developing countries – he is currently fighting it.
“If we have to save the progress of the decade that we have achieved in disadvantages, the world needs to enhance the attempt to adapt climate change in a larger size.”
According to the UNEP’s adaptation gap 2024, in developing countries, there is a small portion of financial support to tackle climate change.
Climate changes, temperature, rising sea level and more frequent and more and more intensity.
At the UN Climate Change Summit in Azerbaijan, the countries have agreed to provide $ 1 billion financial assistance every year to increase the climate adaptation of developing countries.
Talks about climate finance can often seem very complicated. However, the real meaning of this financial support is that it can be built more climate-powered houses to ensure the protection of the local people.
About 190 people are currently living in this storm-resistant home. These buildings were spread across six districts and during the cyclone Rimal, which caused severe rainfall in Bangladesh in 2021, a thousand people were sheltered.
During this storm, Marida and many of his neighbors took shelter in his house. He says that I have never seen the destruction at that time.
But the building, which was the first, stood in the firm with their neighbors as well as the cattle and chickens of the soil.
He said that the best thing is that I can give shelter to my neighbors. Now I’m feeling safe with this house.
Trick
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is playing a leading role in supporting the goal of the Paris Agreement, whose target global temperature rise is below 2 degrees centigrade and ideally restricting to 1.5 degrees centigrade
To achieve this, the UNEP region has developed the solutions – a roadmap that focuses on reducing emissions as per the commitment of the Paris Agreement and maintains climate stability.
This scheme consists of six main zones:
- Power
- Art
- Agriculture and food
- Forests and land use
- Transportation
- The building and the city