Spotlight on displacement for effective climate action
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
That the two disasters coincided was in itself one of the deepest tragedies that the state contenanced. Described as the "costliest tropical cyclone of the year", the report has been crafted by Christian Aid, a relief and development agency based in London. It is said to have displaced 4.9 million people across the affected countries in the Bay of Bengal.
It is learnt that the party's state president Subrata Bakshi, secretary general Partha Chatterjee, vice president Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamul Youth Congress president Abhishek Banerjee held a meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishore and took this decision.
The Covid-19 pandemic has restricted the ecotourism influx in forest areas; labour migration was also stopped due to the lockdown.
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund recently provided UN agencies with 5.2 million US dollars to help families most at risk, the spokesman said.
In 1999 when the super cyclone with much greater velocity than Amphan had its landfall in Odisha, the Bhitarkanika area was saved as the mangrove species withstood the onslaught of gusty wind.
The remarks by Mamata Banerjee come a day after West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh questioned the government's claim that the state suffered losses worth Rs 1 lakh crore due to cyclone Amphan, alleging it was a 'ploy to make money in the name of disasters.'
Mr Mukherjee, assistant registrar, said, “We have planted around 250 saplings in both our campuses and we also donated saplings to the neighborhood.”
Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee, along with other senior state forest department officials, reached Peerkhali area this morning to start the fencing off operation.
President Macron, in his letter, also underscored importance of cooperation between the two countries at multilateral level and the support that India will be in a position to extend to France’s actions initiated under G20 as well as to the Access to Covid Tools - Accelerator (ACT-A) initiative.
