

BIPSS held successfully a Roundtable on “The Current Science and Technology Landscape of Climate Change and Environmental Security in the Asia Pacific Region” on 20 June 2011 at the Conference Room of Flambé Restaurant, Dhaka. The Roundtable was presided over by BIPSS President Major General Muniruzzaman (Retd.).
Dr. J. Scott Hauger, Associate Professor of Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), made the Keynote Presentation on the theme. In the presentation, he highlighted the science of global warming and climate change, and the environmental impacts and security implications of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region. He concluded that Climate change is obvious and over the next 25 years, we will have to deal with greater incidence of natural calamities, reduced water supply and food production and possible increase in disease and climate induced migration in the region.