Learning from the youths (Climate Champions)

A short but very interesting session, which was organized in the evening of 29th March 2011 by the British Council Bangladesh, delivered the climate impacts and messages of the affected people to the more than 200 climate scientists from 60 countries of the world, who have been attending the 5th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation in Bangladesh.

It was an exciting moment to see the roles that the youths through British Council's climate generation programme are playing to document the realities of the field (which are/will be otherwise unreal to the scientists) and to raise the awareness of ordinary people who are the affected most.

During that short session, the screening of videos documented stories from the Nepal himalaya to the coastal region of Bangladesh depicted the different stories but raised by the common causes i.e. green house gases and the global warming and then climate change!!!

The films were from Nepal and Bangladesh, and there were champions from the both countries also but these films have covered the issues of most climate vulnerable peoples and ecosystem that need urgent attention with on the ground work.

These realities also drew an attention of the climate scientists to realize on the need of immediate attention for technology and a transparent finance transfer to the most vulnerable people and nations from the impacts of climate change.

Let us hope, there will be no longer debate on climate governance to support the least developed countries!!!!