A deep dive into the ICJ hearings on climate change and state responsibilities.
The distribution of benefits is unequal between buyers and sellers.
Paradoxically, Bangladesh is also regarded by many as a test case of sustainable development.
She alleges that the development paradigm still reflects the colonial framework of power relationships.
Bangladesh, as the host, has many lessons to share
“The time to take action to save the planet is not tomorrow, but today.”
Bangladesh can bank on the decision of renewable and energy efficiency.
Public financing from developed countries will never be sufficient.
The 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended just days ago.
The UN’s longest-ever climate negotiations, continuing non-stop for almost two extra days, drew to a close on December 15 with not much to celebrate. Nations on both sides—developed and developing—held hardline positions resulting in utter disappointment, so expressed grudgingly by the UN Secretary General himself. Countries failed to agree on many of the sought-after outcomes, including rules to set up a global carbon market, steps to mobilise dedicated funding for loss and damage (L&D) and mobilisation of long term finance (LTF) for the most vulnerable.
The Asia-Pacific Climate Week was held at the UN Conference Centre, Bangkok from September 2 to 6, 2019. The objective was to have a regional dialogue on how to rachet up ambition in mitigation and speed up adaptation actions.
We, the global community, already live in a climate-changed world, evidenced by the successive reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The word “city” comes from the Latin root “civis/civitas”, meaning citizen/citizenship. The expressions “civil/civic/civilisation” owe their pedigree to this Latin origin. Eventually, it came to correspond with the French “urbs”, meaning city in a more physical sense.
The dictionary meaning of “growth” is “getting bigger”, in size or volume, whereas “development” is improvement in the quality of a system. It can be an individual, a community, or a nation.
We have managed to turn a serene, rustic, romantic Dhaka into a dishevelled, messy concrete slum just within a century.
The two-day summit of the exclusive but informal club of G20 comprising of the big industrial and developing countries, held between July 7-8, ended with the issuance of a Communiqué, a ritualistic outcome of such events.
World oceans play the crucial role of a life support in poverty alleviation, food security, human health, and curbing climate change.
On June 1 President Trump declared his administration's intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (PA).
