Shefali Sharma “Carbon majors,” like big oil and gas companies, have long been the focus of efforts to curb climate change and stem rising temperatures. And yet, while energy giants like Exxon and Shell have drawn fire for their roles…
Category: Climate
Foggy weather forces closure of Mawa-Kawrakandi Ferry service
Dhaka – Foggy weather yesterday forced the authority to suspend ferry services at Mawa-Kawrakandi ghat for five hours leading to untold suffering to the commuters of the way.
Trump to drop climate change from US Security Strategy
Donald Trump speaks alongside Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, earlier in December.
The myth of a fossil fuel phase-out
Samuel Furfari Brussels – How the world uses energy is a hot topic for a warming planet, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced a virtual arms race of energy-efficiency strategies. From the European Union to China, economies…
Money talks at One Planet Summit in Paris
By Paris Correspondent Paris, Dec 14 (IPS) – As funding to combat climate change has lagged behind lofty words, the One Planet Summit in France this week invited governments and business leaders to put money on the table.
Global warming to displace One-third of coastal people
Dhaka – One-third of people in coastal areas of Bangladesh will be displaced from their households by 2050 due to climate change. Besides, severe floods, tidal surges and cyclones will increase due to an increase in global temperature and the…
BD takes up $7b plan to combat climate for 5 years
Dhaka – The government has prepared a 5-year country investment plan (CIP) to combat climate change impact and would invest US$ seven billion (Tk 56,000 crore) in this sector.
Civil society summit wants Int’l action on climate migration
By Megan Darby Suva, Fiji, Dec 12 (IPS) – Civil society leaders from more than 100 countries called for action on climate-induced displacement at a summit in Suva, Fiji last week.
জলবায়ু পরিবর্তনের প্রতিবাদে জাতীয় কমিটি ফ্রান্স শাখার প্যারিসে বিক্ষোভ
প্যারিস – গত ১০ এবং ১২ ডিসেম্বর Paris Agreement এর ২য় বছর পূর্তির প্রাক্কালে বিভিন্ন পরিবেশবাদী সংগঠন জীবাশ্ম জ্বালানির ব্যবহার রোধে ফ্রান্সের প্যারিসে গণশুনানি, প্রতিবাদী সমাবেশের আয়োজন করে। বাংলাদেশের সুন্দরবন রক্ষা এবং রামপালে কয়লাভিত্তিক বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র বাতিলের দাবিতে বাংলাদেশি এ্যাক্টিভিস্টরাও…
Non-State Actors reaffirm 13 priority proposals on climate finance
On the eve of the One Planet Summit, non-state actors on climate reaffirm their 13 priority proposals on access to climate finance.
PM leaves for Paris to attend ‘One Planet Summit
Dhaka, Dec 11 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Paris on Monday morning on a three-day official visit to attend ‘One Planet Summit’.
Paris climate summit a chance for real progress: World Bank
WASHINGTON,BSS/AFP) – The Paris climate summit next week offers a chance for concrete advances in the fight against global warming, even without the support of President Donald Trump, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said.”What makes this summit different is…
PM to present Bangladesh’s work plan at ‘One Planet Summit’
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will announce Bangladesh’s future work plan on adaptation and climate resilience at the ‘One Planet Summit’ In Paris. She is expected to leave Dhaka on Monday for Paris on a three-day official visit to attend…
Rain disrupts normal life in Dhaka city
Dhaka, Dec 10 – Moderate rainfall, coming under the influence a depression which in the Bay of Bengal, disrupted the normal life in the city on Saturday and since Sunday morning.
Businesses face ruin as California wildfires rage
Much of California’s avocado crop has been destroyed by wildfires that have ripped through the southern part of the state, industry experts say. “We’ve lost at least several hundred acres of avocados, probably more,” the California Avocado Commission told agriculture…
‘Stop investing in fossil fuels to save climate’
The development of oil, gas, and coal energy must stop in order to avoid the worst ravages of global warming, 80 top economists said Thursday ahead of a climate summit in Paris. “We call for an immediate end to investments…
The Climate-Change fight returns to Paris
Laurence Tubiana In 2015, the so-called “high ambition coalition” of developed and developing countries pushed the Paris climate agreement past the finish line. But when global leaders reconvene in Paris for new talks on climate change at the upcoming One…
200,000 flee as wildfires spread, emergency in California
Nearly 200,000 residents have been evacuated from their homes in California as firefighters battle several raging wildfires. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in San Diego on Thursday after a new blaze spread from 10 acres to 4,100…
Beyond Bonn: Eco-social policies and environmental sustainability
COP23 in Bonn sought to maintain the global momentum for ‘green growth’ – to decouple output from greenhouse gas emissions. But the crucial topics of consumption, inequality and unrestrained growth were entirely absent. My recent book seeks to place these…
16 killed in India, Sri Lanka as strong cyclone hits
A powerful cyclone has killed at least 16 people across India and Sri Lanka, uprooting trees and cutting power for millions amid warnings Friday that the storm would intensify. Disaster officials said nine people were killed in India and seven…
Climate finance: Waiting for the first EU $ from committed 100b
Listening to Europe speak in Bonn, Germany during the recent conference on how to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, it is possible to be get carried away thinking, nay believing, that the global response is well underway. But…
Obama blasts Trump over climate change issue
Former US president Barack Obama launched a veiled barb at his successor Donald Trump on Friday, saying there is “a pause in American leadership” on climate change. Since leaving office in January, Obama has been relatively restrained in his comments…
Should environmental refugees be granted asylum status?
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 2017 (IPS) – The 1951 UN convention on political refugees– which never foresaw the phenomenon of climate change– permits refugee status only if one “has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her…
Killing biosphere to fast-track human extinction
Robert J. Burrowes Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had…
Capitalizing on climate unity
Hilda Heine and Kevin Rudd Bonn – When Donald Trump was elected US president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh. Yet, as the latest round of global climate talks in Bonn, Germany,…
Carbon pricing takes off
Catherine McKenna and Feike Sijbesma Bonn – The hurricanes that pummeled the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida this year left highways submerged, homes and businesses demolished, and lives lost. The floodwaters have since receded, but the images of upheaval remain etched…
Natural solutions to climate change
Justin Adams Oxford – In response to climate change, land is key. Today, agriculture, forestry, and other land uses account for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse-gas emissions. But adopting sustainable land management strategies could provide more than one-third of…
‘Combating climate change? Combat land degradation.’
By Stella Paul Bonn, Germany, Nov 24 (IPS) – Land restoration is not a “glamorous subject even when you give all the numbers,” admits Monique Barbut, the Executive Secretary of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD). But she also…
BD has no obligation for mitigation measures for climate change: Energy Adviser
Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Saturday said Bangladesh has no obligation for taking mitigation measures while dealing with climate change issues. “We’re just producing only 0.4 metric tons (mt) of carbon per annum while a developed country…
A Cop cut at COP23?
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Nov 23 (IPS) – Despite a few victories, the UN’s annual climate change conference ended without achieving its goals or injecting a sense of much needed urgency.