climate change
The renewable energy sector needs a push
Reduce dependence on fossil fuels, transition to clean energy
Yunus calls for united action to tackle climate crisis
Focuses on youth potential for green growth and sustainability
Carbon neutrality is non-negotiable
Major polluters must help nations most vulnerable to climate change.
Floods, education, and uncertainty
The impact of climate change on students in Bangladesh.
'Mercury Bomb': A gift from climate change
What effects will the mercury bomb have on humans?
COP29 must set a new goal for climate finance and adaptation
As COP29 progresses, Bangladesh will be watching closely to see whether the international community can meet the urgency of its climate needs.
Coastal people in Bangladesh: Millions suffer as world prepares for COP29
Just a few days ago, Sakhina Begum’s teenage grandson Ariful narrowly escaped a crocodile attack while he and his friend were catching crabs from a canal near his home.
COP29 must see a scale-up of Loss and Damage Fund
The loss and damage cycle requires holistic, integrated, and continuous climate financing urgently from local, national, and international government and non-government actors.
COP29: What are the key issues at the UN climate summit in Baku?
COP29 delegates will also be looking to advance other deals made at previous summits.
Have we already started seeing the Rohingya refugee crisis differently?
The 2022 JRP has five strategic objectives to support the affected Bangladeshi and Rohingya populations.
Travelling essentials: Ways to become a responsible tourist
Responsible tourism is all about making better places to live, and visit while letting nature thrive. These days, the terms responsible tourism, sustainable tourism, eco-tourism take centre stage of any discourse regarding travelling and tourism, and for good reasons. There is raising awareness, globally, about the adverse impacts travel can have on the nature, environment, places and people — especially through contributing to climate change, pollution, unsustainable pressure on wildlife and habitats, harming local economies, or even distortion of local customs, cultures and heritage.
Climate change: Govts’ inaction ‘dangerous’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it.
How world’s hottest city harshest on mothers
Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.
Extreme heat wave: 100m Americans asked to stay in
More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors -- if possible -- as high temperatures and humidity settle in over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas.
Climate Change: Bangladesh one of the most vulnerable countries
We're witnessing unexpected changes in the global climate following global warming. What are the risks for Bangladesh? How severe are they?
Celebrating 50 years of global environmental movement
Stockholm+50, a two-day international conference held last week, was aimed at reconnecting the different strands of the original environmental movement.
Climate change: Snow-capped Alps going green
The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover -- a process called “greening” that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday.
Climate change: Bangladesh to seek fund, cooperation at Stockholm +50
Bangladesh will call for green finance and global cooperation at the Stockholm +50 that began in Sweden today (June 2, 2022), as the country bears the brunt of climate change impacts because of Covid-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Finance for loss and damage from climate change must be ensured soon
The issue of finance for helping the victims of human-induced climate change has now become the most urgent climate issue.