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G M Mourtoza
Mr. G M Mourtoza has completed Graduate and Masters Degree from Mass Communication and Journalism Department of Rajshahi University. He has more than 14 years of experience in media and development sector. He has been working now as an Editor with the first news based online radio of Bangladesh called RadioDesh.Com. Beside, he has been working as special reporter in a daily newspaper named The Daily Sunshine. He is one of the key founder and director of a media based organisation called Center for Communication and Development (CCD Bangladesh, www.ccdbd.org). He is also founder of a journalist’s forum named Economic Journalists Network (EJ Net, www.ejnet-bd.net). He also serves as resource person and consultant for several development and media organizations in Bangladesh. He has successfully developed a number of journalistic training manuals and modules. He loves to orient and train fellow journalists on several socio-economic and development issues so that they can play vital role. His areas of interest are socio-economic and environmental development, health, human rights and the environment.
Posts by G M Mourtoza
International campaign on climate refugee rights launched at UN talks
No commentsCivil society groups Friday launched an International Campaign on Climate Change Refugees’ Rights on the sidelines of climate talks here in the Danish capital.
»No increase over 2 degrees after 2015 — Pachauri
1 commentMore than two degree average global temperature increase after 2015 would melt snow and ice across the globe and raise seas 0.4 to 1.4 meters, which could submerge several small island states and Bangladesh, warned a top climate scientist at UN talks here.
»Bangladesh stakes claim to 15% of climate fund
No commentsBangladesh, the most vulnerable country to climate change, is demanding at least 15 percent of a proposed fund for adaptation.
»Use IFM reserves for green loans — Soros
No commentsGlobal financier and philanthropist George Soros urged the world’s richest nations to use $100bn of reserves of the IMF to back green loans from rich to poor nations.
»GermanWatch finds Bangladesh most vulnerable to climate
No commentsBangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras were the countries most affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, according to the GermanWatch Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2010.
»Bangkok climate talks end on uncertain note
No commentsBangkok, 10 October: The two-week-long United Nations climate change talks ended here yesterday with participants urged to abandon self-interest and work for a fair and equitable agreement to this global crisis. Developing countries, scientists and environmental groups called on world leaders to show their political commitment to reach an agreement at the final round of [...]
»USA and China come face to face on climate
No commentsA fierce spat between Chinese and American negotiators at the Bangkok climate talks could be a discouraging sign for the UN summit meeting in Copenhagen two months from now.
»South Asia ‘faces common climate threat’
No commentsSouth Asian countries have been urged to unite in working to limit climate change and to raise their voices together in a demand for compensation to make good the damage it is causing. The call came at a regional conference held recently in Nepal, entitled “Kathmandu to Copenhagen: South Asia’s Regional Climate Change.” About a [...]
»South Asia co-operates on climate change
2 commentsSouth Asian countries have agreed that the rivers of the Himalayas should be managed in a novel way to confront the threat posed by climate change.
»Climate Change Seriously Damaging Asia’s Water Tower
No commentsScientists say global warming is melting the Himalayan glaciers, creating lakes in the mountains. Sooner or later these lakes may overflow, flooding downstream areas and leaving many people homeless refugees. The scientists’ warning was spelt out at a journalists’ workshop recently held in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, on the theme “The Third Pole Project: [...]
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