UNOC3 concluded with the adoption of the Nice Ocean Action Plan, a two-part outcome comprising a political declaration.
Tariffs will serious impact on climate change, an unfolding crisis of our time.
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.”
Coronavirus is razing the world to the ground, continuing to claim human lives—the latest count exceeds well over 200,000, with the number of infected running over three million.
Beginning in Decem-ber in China’s Wuhan City, the highly infectious COVID-19 has crossed boundaries and oceans with supersonic speed.
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.
