The heatwave currently searing Bangladesh has led to renewed focus on reforestation efforts. On social media, calls to take up tree-planting drives, and even take on the challenge of creating a world record for planting trees are being peddled
COP28 offered progress, albeit slow; but time is a luxury that nations like Bangladesh cannot afford.
Central banks are public institutions, charged with maintaining economic stability through controlling the supply of money in an economy.
A great majority of the world population today is not in control of their fate.
Climate impact on groundwater and solutions
Bangladesh can bank on the decision of renewable and energy efficiency.
It is difficult to not feel defeated by COP28’s end results.
We don’t have the time anymore, and we, as the climate action community, are tired of saying this ad nauseam.
Regardless of which country you look at in the world, one crisis is evident everywhere: the climate crisis.
People living in climate-vulnerable areas urgently need government support
The average maximum temperature in Bangladesh for the month of August was a three-decade high.
The world is already feeling the impacts of human-induced climate change.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (May 25, 2022) said that the world must not divert its attention from the looming climate crisis due to the ongoing geopolitical tension.
Over the last decade in Bangladesh, we have spent almost a billion US dollars on several hundred projects and activities to tackle climate change.
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, held in Paris from 30 November to 12 December 2015, was the biggest event of its kind.
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) just held its high officials' meeting in Manila under the chairmanship of the government of the Philippines...
The UN says the current climate plans from 146 countries represent a significant advance-- but will not enough to prevent dangerous warming.
Financing of the efforts to mitigate the climate-change effects and provide resources to the affected countries is an important element of the next international agreement. Progress on commitment of resources to fund climate projects has been, as expected, sluggish.
The Government of France is going to host the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris from November 30 to December 11, where it is expected that a new climate change agreement will be signed.