Nathalie Bernasconi – Osterwalder , Jorg Haas In 2016, global spending on oil and gas projects was more than double the total spent on renewables. That imbalance can be addressed only by restructuring the mechanisms, particularly existing trade treaties, that govern…
Bonn, 8 Nov (T Ajit) — On the 2nd day of the ongoing climate talks in Bonn, developing countries called for emphasis to be given to a particular finance issue dealing with quantitative and qualitative information on projected levels of…
Bonn, 7 Nov (Jade Chiang and Meena Raman) – Developing countries raised several key concerns at the opening of the 47th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 47) on 6 Nov., which was held after the official opening…
Bonn, 7 November (Zhu Zhenyan) – Meetings of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its Kyoto Protocol (KP) and Paris Agreement (PA) as well as those of the Subsidiary Bodies serving these treaties kicked off on…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Nov 6 (IPS) – The UN Climate Change Summit in Bonn is a step further, most experts say. Fine, but towards what? On the one hand, the organisers – the UN, Fiji and Germany – express…
Dhaka, Nov 6 – This year’s UN Climate Change Conference kicked off in Bonn, Germany on Monday with strong, unified calls to hold to the path of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The opening of the conference (COP23, November 6-17)…
Bonn, 6 Nov. (Meena Raman) – The annual climate change talks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol (KP) and the Paris Agreement (PA) are taking place in Bonn, Germany from Nov. 6 to…
At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, just days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit. The storm, which made landfall on Saturday,…
New Delhi, Nov 4 (AP/UNB) – Thousands of people have taken refuge in relief camps as torrential monsoon rains flooded parts of southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, killing at least 12 people this week.
By Johannes Friedrich and Andrew Pickens Washington DC, Nov 3 (IPS) – Negotiators and stakeholders headed to Bonn, Germany, for next week’s UN climate summit continue to confront a range of questions surrounding one essential query: How do we meet…
By Sunita Narain Do not read me wrong. Last fortnight I had said we may breathe easier this winter. This does not mean we will breathe clean air. I meant compared to last winter air pollution would be lower because…
Bangladesh will raise its voice at the Conference of the Parties (COP-23) to mount pressure on the global communities to make them extend financial and technical supports to the developing countries for coping with the negative impacts of global climate…
The eighth edition of UN Environment’s Emissions Gap report, released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, finds that national pledges only bring approximately one-third of the reduction in emissions required by 2030 to meet climate targets, with…
Geneva, Oct 31 (AP/UNB) – The head of the U.N. environment program said Tuesday the United States is likely to live up to the Paris climate deal despite President Donald Trump’s planned pullout, because “all the big American companies” are…
The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has hit a new high, the UN said Monday, warning that drastic action is needed to achieve targets set by the Paris climate agreement. “Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…
Loren Legarda Manila – The Earth today is more than 1°C hotter than it was in pre-industrial times, and the terrible symptoms of its fever are already showing. This year alone, back-to-back hurricanes have devastated Caribbean islands, monsoon flooding has…
Dhaka – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh organized a day-long seminar titled “Bangladesh…
Under the influence of land depression, Feni witnessed the highest 253 mm rainfall in nine hours to 3pm today, an official of the Met Office here said today. “Generally, Bangladesh witnesses depression at the Bay almost every year during the…
City dwellers experienced a rare opportunity to take a boat ride along key thoroughfares as the roads went under knee- to chest-deep water due to torrential heavy downpour on Saturday. Members of Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) provided the…
Dhaka, Oct 21 – Moderate to heavy rainfall, triggered by land depression in the Bay, has been continuing throughout Bangladesh including the capital Dhaka, disrupting the normal life in the city and elsewhere in the country for the second day…
A global network of aid agencies has launched four new “innovation labs” in Bangladesh, Jordan, Kenya and the Philippines, aimed at finding fresh ways to help local communities prepare for disasters.
By Helen Briggs It’s known as the windscreen phenomenon. When you stop your car after a drive, there seem to be far fewer squashed insects than there used to be.
Hong Kong, China – Oct 17 – Rabobank, the world’s leading food and agricultural bank, has announced its global activation program, ‘Kickstart Food’, to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food supply. One of the first steps in this program…
Delhi, 17 October (Indrajit Bose) — The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has decided to allocate up to USD 500 million for a request for proposals (RFP) for the pilot programme for ‘reducing emissions from deforestation and forest…
Delhi, 16 October (Indrajit Bose) — The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) faced a conundrum over the selection process for the permanent trustee of the Fund at its most recent 18th meeting, held in Cairo, Egypt, from 30…
Mexico City, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) – Mexico City will reinforce its earthquake alert system by installing between 800 and 1,000 new speakers on the streets, after the 7.1 earthquake which hit the capital on Sep. 19 and killed 228 people,…
Dhaka – Water activists of Bangladesh and Northeast India at a consultation meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday called for collaborative people’s movement against a move for large structural interventions on the Brahmaputra without caring about its environmental, economic and ecological…
Monica Araya The growing popularity of electric vehicles is set to curb one of the largest sources of global pollution. But a consumption bias continues to impede many buyers’ embrace of the technology, and until it is addressed, electric mobility…
Dhaka, Oct 9 – The well-marked low over coastal areas of Bangladesh, West Bengal and adjoining northwest bay moved slightly north-northwestwards and intensified into a land depression.
Jules Kortenhorst Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time to stem global warming and save the planet. The clean-energy transformation has already begun – and it will play out faster than…