Climate Change Equity: is it a plan, an aspiration or a fashion statement? A report of a Joint Inquiry by Bangladesh Parliament's All Party Group on Climate Change and Environment and the UK All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group Dhaka, London & Copenhagen - December 2009 Bangladesh: Publication contacts Saber Hossain Chowdhury MP HR Bhaban, 26/1 Kakrail Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh Constituency Office: Shobujmoti Bhaban, 287/12-C Bishwa Road, Khilgaon, Dhaka 1219, Bangladesh Tel: (+8802) 831 5043 / (+880) 171152 3403) Fax: (+8802) 831 1967
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[email protected] 5 Introduction and acknowledgements Contents 7 Country Facts 9 Equity 17 Changing climate change: a human rights response Summary of Evidence 25 Practical Action 28 Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management 29 Dr Atiur Rahman 30 Professor Mizan Khan 31 Professor Peter F Smith 32 Lord Julian Hunt 33 Transparency International Bangladesh 34 Professor Nazrul Islam 35 Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, 36 Lord Dixon-Smith 37 James S Pender 40 Emergency Capacity Building Project 41 The Centre for Global Change and the Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods 43 New Age magazine 45 Oxfam Bangladesh and the Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods 46 RESULTS UK 48 European Action Group on Climate Change in Bangladesh 51 Membership of the Bangladesh All Party Parliamentary Climate Change and Environment Group 52 Membership of the UK All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group 3 Bangladesh About the All Party Formation of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Climate Change and Environ- Groups ment was announced by Honourable Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament Advocate Abdul Hamid on June 21st 2009 with Saber Hossain Chowdhury MP, as its Chair.