The World Bank today approved three loans totalling $1.16 billion to help Bangladesh improve health services, boost water and sanitation services and achieve greener and climate-resilient development, it said in a statement.
The target for 2035 would see emissions slashed by 45 to 50 percent from 2005 levels, on its way to net-zero by mid-century.
The new benchmark affirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service caps a year in which countries rich and poor were hammered by disasters that scientists have linked to humanity's role in Earth's rapid warming.
The hearings begin a week after developing nations denounced as woefully inadequate an agreement reached at the COP29 summit for countries to provide $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035 to help poorer nations cope with climate change.
New South Wales police said 170 protesters were arrested on Sunday for refusing to move from the shipping channel near the Port of Newcastle.
Nearly 200 nations approved Sunday a climate deal that raises to at least $300 billion a year the amount wealthy historic polluters pay poorer countries to take action against global warming
"The proposed decision to allocate USD 250 billion per year for all developing countries is shockingly insufficient," said the adviser
COP29 draft deal says rich nations should pay the amount to fight climate change
PM says at G20 Summit, urges quick mobilisation of Loss and Damage Fund
Power-hungry AC units contribute to climate change and worsen global heat problem
The newly appointed head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jim Skea, spoke to two major German news outlets over the weekend, soon after his appointment to the role
It is late in the afternoon, when hours after descending a steep and dangerous cairn, glistening with layers of snow, the majestic Masangang came into view. A crisp mountain air cut through the silent vast land as the strong breeze gracefully encircled the towering peaks. A lone woman with a child strapped on her back, trudges towards the campsite, a stark figure amidst the snow-white landscape
Swiss embassy's Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Programme finds
Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned today..The glaciers disappeared 65 percent faster from 2011 to 2020 compared wit
Environment minister tells JS citing a research
The alliance will play a pivotal role in initiating policy dialogues focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, developing climate-responsive power policies, establishing power purchase agreements and identifying climate-smart investment opportunities
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg participated in her last School Strike for Climate to mark her graduation from high school on Friday
The WMO also found a 98 percent chance that one of the next five years will be the hottest on record, surpassing 2016
