The new climate budget of Bangladesh should have allocated funds under the Just Transition theme—not just for emission reduction, but also for ensuring workers’ rights during such transitions
No space for Climate change in the ongoing reform debates but actions are needed.
For ecological monitoring of wildlife, Bangladesh government needs to fund and implement projects as per the new framework.
Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.
Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.
Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.
Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.
To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed three alarming connections between us and nature.
Our current under-standing and response to the ongoing “corona crisis” are results of extensive, fast-track research. The possible transfer of the
In the middle of the devastating coronavirus crisis, we have come across some good news about the environment.
The first academic journal, Le Journal des Sçavans, was published on January 5, 1665 from Paris. Over the past three centuries—according to the latest STM Report 2018 by the International Association of Scientific,
According to the Global Risks Report 2020 from the World Economic Forum (WEF), biodiversity loss is now the third most serious risk our world is facing in terms of impact.
On May 29, 2014, soon after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second volume of its massive Fifth Assessment Report, an interesting article was written in The Daily Star.
Bangladesh’s forests tell us many stories. Let me share three of them.
The IUCN Red List turns 53 this year. Officially known as The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, it is basically a scientific tool that helps to check, if a species - plant or animal, big or small, fast or slow - is at risk of becoming extinct from the face of the earth, forever.
As we start 2017 we have many encouraging numbers to be proud of. The country has been sustaining GDP growth at 6.3 percent for the last five years. Per capita income (USD 1,314) is more than twice of that of 2008. Less than 13 percent of us are now extreme poor,
