Al Gore lauds Bangladeshi for fighting against climate change

Former US vice-president and Nobel laureate Al Gore has lauded a Bangladeshi youth, Shah Meem Rafayat Chowdhury, for his leadership in combating adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation.
Gore, who won Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change, urged the young generation to be more active to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Gore made the remark when Shah Meem joined his climate leadership training programme recently in Chicago as a youth ambassador of Bangladesh.
Shah Meem handed over a copy of his edited magazine to Al Gore. The cover page of the magazine was titled "Born to Smile".
An A-level examinee of Scholastica school, 17-year-old Shah Meem had participated in the Rio+20 summit in Brazil last year. He had also attended the UN Climate Conference and the First Meeting of the Adaptation Committee.
Shah Meem is the son of Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, lead negotiator of LDC climate and sustainable development and member of the UN Adaptation Committee, and journalist Kazi Shahnaz.