The United Nations Development Programme and its partners in Bangladesh at a national policy dialogue in the city on Tuesday highlighted the importance of treating climate change adaptations and disaster risk reduction through aligned national policies and spending.
There is no alternative to adaptation with climate change impacts to reduce risk and vulnerability in the disaster-prone backward areas for ensuring food security and livelihoods of the poor and disadvantaged population.
Speakers at Rajshahi University (RU) on Friday demanded that the government should adopt an effective policy to face the challenges of climate changes and to reduce the bad effect of this.
Due to active monsoon, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions during next 24 hours commencing at 3pm on Friday. Landslide may occur at places over the hilly…
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a local leader of Hefajatfrom the local bus stand area on Monday.
Nine Bangladeshi girls on Monday returned home from India after languishing in a jail in the country for one and a half years.
Representatives from governments in Asia, including Bangladesh and Africa, have formed a network to support their efforts to include climate change into their development plans.
UN climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed rich countries can spare to help the developing world tackle global warming.