The ICJ concluded that states have explicit legal duties to safeguard the climate system against anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
The COP30 presidency wishes to achieve some tangible outcomes.
Climate change is a man-made problem, but campaigners and irresponsible politicians have blown this out of proportion.
The buildup of carbon dioxide and other GHGs in the atmosphere has elevated global temperatures to perilously high levels.
In Bangladesh’s saline delta, climate-vulnerable women like Jamuna and Pushpa lead adaptation with innovative farming and resilience. Despite gender inequality and health risks, they drive sustainable solutions for survival, food security, and environmental justice.
Says ICIMOD DDG Izabella Koziell marking World Environment Day
Can we industrialize without destroying ourselves? Or will the future generation look back at our actions and ask, “Our ancestors built the economy but destroyed the land that fed it?”
Tariffs will serious impact on climate change, an unfolding crisis of our time.
Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
Polar bears are struggling to find enough seals to eat, and the problem will get worse as the planet warms because their metabolisms are much faster than previously thought, researchers say.
At the recently concluded two-day international conference on climate finance in Dhaka, about a hundred national and 50 international experts, government officials, researchers and private sector representatives shared their experiences and knowledge about raising and spending money to tackle climate change around the world.
Mammals and birds stand the best chance of all animals of surviving Earth's rapidly changing climate, researchers say.
Last year was the second hottest worldwide on record, just behind a sweltering 2016, with signs of climate change ranging from wildfires to a thaw of Arctic ice, a European Union monitoring centre says.
2017 has been the year of Climate Change impacts and its horrors making to the news on a daily basis. From hurricanes to wildfires, the previous year was a constant reminder that the planet is in the eye of the great climate change storm.
Bangladesh’s port city lying on the coastal belt, Chittagong is on the list of World Bank’s funding for cash-short cities with big plans for protection from damage of climate change.
On December 12, 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris, France, under the leadership of the then President Hollande, the historic Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted. It was a historic agreement for a number of important reasons.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel to France tomorrow to attend the One Planet Summit, an event for discussing funding for the fight against climate change.
A heated debate is currently ongoing about the necessity to prevent Business and Industry Non-Governmental Organisations (BINGOs) representing Big Oil from disproportionately and wrongly manipulating, slowing and watering down climate policy and negotiations.
The second Annual National Conference on Urban Resilience was just held in Dhaka and in three days it brought together several hundred people from different sectors including the central government, local government, mayors and town planners, as well as researchers, academics, NGOs and private sector actors to discuss the future pathways to build urban resilience in Bangladesh.
