International meet on Climate Change concludes
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 23 2015 :
The two-day international meet on climate change organised by the Department of Social Work, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Regional Campus, Manipur in collaboration with the United NGOs Mission, Manipur; Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur and Biodiversity Ecology and Environment Network, Manipur concluded on Wednesday at Lamyanba Sanglen, Palace Compound.
In the first technical session entitled, "Politics of Climate Change", which was Chaired by Dr RK Ranjan, Manipur Association for Science and Society, four resource persons presented papers.
Dr Dieter Reinhardlt, Wall University for Applied Science, Heidelberg, Germany presented a paper titled, "Future Impact of Climate Change on Brahmaputra River System: International Law and Transboundary River Systems".
Dr Laifungbam Devabrata, Centre for Organisation Education and Research, Imphal presented a paper on "International Climate Negotiations and Developing Countries".
Prof Anja Desiree Senz, Heidelberg University, Germany spoke on "Climate Change and Environmental Problems in China: Public Debates and Role of Non-State Actors (NGOs) in Environmental Politics" and finally Nobo Urikhinbam from the United NGOs Mission, Manipur presented a paper on "Climate Change and Politics" .
The last technical session titled, "Issues and Challenges of Climate Change" was chaired by Dr Dhanabir Laishram in which 10 resource persons presented papers.
Way Forward and Valedictory Function of the International Meet was chaired by Dr RK Ranjan, Manipur Association for Science and Society.
There was distribution of certificate and declaration of the meet.
The gathering at the end, in a single voice endorsed that global warming and climate change is threat and challenge to humankind.
In this context, for the people living in the Indo-Burma Mega Bio-diversity Hot Spot Zone, the threat is more acute as most of the development projects have been taken up without development justice resulting in upset of the eco-system services.
Further, lack of alternative livelihood meant for the people in this region have also aggravated the situation of climate change.
The meet having deliberated on different aspects of climate change came to the conclusion that positive interventions need to be contributed to the ongoing movement on climate change.