The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.
Even after 31 years of advocacy, lobbying and dialogues, no dedicated finance has yet been delivered under the UNFCCC.
There is a great need for an annual “Accountability COP” to hold those who have pledged to act against climate change to account.
It is clear that polluters are the reason why the world is going through the era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change.
Stockholm+50, a two-day international conference held last week, was aimed at reconnecting the different strands of the original environmental movement.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to channel USD 100 billion a year starting from 2020 onwards, which the developed countries have pledged to provide to developing countries to tackle climate change through both mitigation as well as adaptation activities. The Secretariat of the GCF is located in Korea and the GCF Board has equal representation from developed and developing countries.
After the Paris Agreement on climate change endorsed by every participating country last December at the 21st Conference of
A few years ago, Melinda and I visited with a group of rice farmers in Bihar, India, one of the most flood-prone regions of the country.
Over the last decade, Bangladesh has spent over half-a-billion US dollars on hundreds of projects to tackle climate change.
The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.
Even after 31 years of advocacy, lobbying and dialogues, no dedicated finance has yet been delivered under the UNFCCC.
There is a great need for an annual “Accountability COP” to hold those who have pledged to act against climate change to account.
It is clear that polluters are the reason why the world is going through the era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change.
Stockholm+50, a two-day international conference held last week, was aimed at reconnecting the different strands of the original environmental movement.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to channel USD 100 billion a year starting from 2020 onwards, which the developed countries have pledged to provide to developing countries to tackle climate change through both mitigation as well as adaptation activities. The Secretariat of the GCF is located in Korea and the GCF Board has equal representation from developed and developing countries.
After the Paris Agreement on climate change endorsed by every participating country last December at the 21st Conference of
A few years ago, Melinda and I visited with a group of rice farmers in Bihar, India, one of the most flood-prone regions of the country.
Over the last decade, Bangladesh has spent over half-a-billion US dollars on hundreds of projects to tackle climate change.
The inability to access water due to deniability by another nation could potentially lead to conflict. Regional cooperation can lead to better planning and coming to terms on a pricing mechanism on water must become a priority issue for policymakers of countries in our region.
