The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

As many tidal surges are likely in Bangladesh in the future, some 15 percent of lands of the country will go under water by 40-50 years because of climate change, an expert said on Sunday.

"An acute food deficiency will be seen in the country with reduced agricultural productivity due to calamities," said Prof. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, member of Nobel Prize winning International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club.

Actionaid, an NGO, organized the press conference on 'Climate Change Adaptation: What Women Want'.

Prof. QK Ahmad, an eminent economist, urged the people of the country to remain aware about the international aids so that the aid money is properly distributed among the cyclone affected people.

"People will have to be conscious so that nobody can make business with the money allocated for those affected by the Sidr," he said.