Reiterating its demand for cancelling the Rampal Power Plant project, the National Committee to Protect the Sundarbans today called upon the government to stop campaigns of the “controversial project”.
Category: Environment
Paris deal’s 1.5oC temprarture target needs immediate govt action
Daphne Davies, LDC News Service Marrakech – As government ministers meet in Marrakech to assess global ambition towards addressing climate change in the near-term, a coalition of social movements, including LDC watch, an umbrella group of NGOs from civil society,…
The Trump effect: Wary climate diplomats ‘wait and see’
The world expects the United States to uphold commitments under the landmark Paris climate treaty despite Donald Trump’s vow to pull out, the incoming head of its UN implementing body told AFP Friday. “The Paris Agreement is here,” Moroccan foreign…
New York braces for the looming threats of climate change
On calm days, waters innocently wash against the aging seawalls at Manhattan’s southernmost park, but in decades to come they could inundate the island’s lower districts. If the latest apocalyptic climate change projections come true—with sea levels rising upwards of…
BD civil society urge Govt: Commit to achieve SDG on migration
The commitment to “leave no one behind” is a key feature of the newly adopted 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This transformative agenda, which outlines the goals for sustainable development for the coming 15 years and beyond, truly has the poorest,…
Trump’s ‘pick for EPA’ to wants all ‘love global warming’
Just hours after Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election was called for Donald Trump, a Breitbart News commentator declared, “The liberal Left just lost the ‘battle’ against climate change.” The Republican president-elect has called climate change a hoax, and now it’s reported…
‘No decision that Adaptation Fund serves Paris Agreement’
Marrakech (Meena Raman) – A major controversy has arisen between developed and developing countries as regards the Adaptation Fund and the Paris Agreement (PA), under the informal consultations which are on-going under the Ad hoc Working Group on the PA…
Drought-hit Zimbabwe farmers look to science to save crops
Under the scorching Zimbabwean sun, cattle seek shade among stunted thorn bushes in the drought-prone district of Zaka, where crops wither due toincreasing temperatures and changing weather patterns. Severe lack of rain across southern Africa has hit the country hard,…
Steps taken against deer poaching as ‘Rash Mela’ nears
Bagerhat –The Forest Department has taken some measures to prevent the poaching of deer and other wild animals in the Sundarbans ahead of ‘Rash Mela’, a traditional Hindu religious festival, at Alorkol in Dublar Char Island near the Bay of…
Ground-breaking Paris deal could fall apart under Trump
By Hilary Beaumont President-elect Donald Trump has sworn to back out of the Paris climate deal — a move that could potentially tank the historic multi-nation agreement, or at least make it extremely hard to implement. Trump, who has shrugged…
Climate change poses threat to agriculture in Barind area
Speakers at a seminar here said that adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to the agriculture and overall public health especially relating to water and sanitation in Barind tract. The observations came at a daylong…
Canada immigration site crashes as Trump leads to victory
Dhaka – Canada’s official website providing information on immigration and itizenship has broken as people look to leave the US as Donald Trump grabbed an early lead in the US presidential race.
Bangladesh’s once thriving tourism sector fighting for survival
-By Raquib Siddiqi Dhaka – The tourism in Bangladesh, which, hitherto failed to get appropriate government support, yet moved ahead and stayed alive, is fighting for its survival, being engulfed in crisis, due to negative image. Action to manage the…
Dhaka to invest $1bn in Bhutan hydropower: FM
Dhaka – Bangladesh is willing to invest US$ 1 billion in the 1125-MW Dorjilung hydropower project under trilateral cooperation with India and Bhutan, said Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported.
UN urges Dhaka to scrap coal-fired power plant near tiger forest
The Sundarbans—a vast mangrove wetland along the southwestern coast of Bangladesh that’s home to abundant wildlife, including endangered tigers—yields million pounds of fish, shrimp and crab each year. This is healthy, sustainable, affordable food in a country where roughly 69…
Africa hit worst by extreme weather in 2015
Four of the 10 countries hammered hardest in 2015 by climate-boosted extreme weather are in Africa, according to a report released Tuesday at UN climate talks in Marrakesh. “Africa is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” said Sonke…
Cost of global warming worse than feared
A lot has happened since Nicholas Stern, then a permanent secretary at the UK Treasury, produced his landmark review of the impact of climate change 10 years ago. His work was quickly recognized as the definitive account of the economic…
Climate change challenges China
The gleaming towers of Shanghai belie the Chinese commercial hub’s vulnerability to climate change, and the city is spending billions to try to protect itself, but experts say the country’s authoritarian system is a hidden weakness. According to a report…
Shall Marrakech climate talks adopt plan of action
Marrakech (Meena Raman) – The annual year end climate talks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will kick off in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7 November and is expected to end on the 18th. The two-week talks…
Delhi schools closed for 3 days as smog pollution worsens
Delhi’s chief minister has shut all schools in the Indian capital for three days as its citizens struggle with choking smog. After an emergency cabinet meeting, Arvind Kejriwal promised a raft of measures to combat the extreme air pollution. All…
Morocco climate conference to design ways to implement Paris Agreement
The world climate conference in Morocco next Monday will focus on the ways to implement the Paris Agreement. “The agreement is undoubtedly a turning point in the history of common human endeavor, capturing the combined political, economic and social will…
Depression weakens after landfall in Chittagong coast
Dhaka – The deep depression over northeast bay and adjoining area moved north-northeastwards further, weakened into a depression before making landfall and started to cross Chittagong coast near Sitakunda at 6am on Sunday. It is likely to move in a…
Deep depression, causing precipitation, to cross Sunday
Dhaka – The low-lying areas of Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Noakhali, Laxmipur, Feni, Chandpur, Barguna, Bhola, Patuakhali, Barisal, Pirozpur, Jhalakati, Bagherhat, Khulna, Satkhira and their offshore islands and chars are likely to be inundated by tidal surge of 2-3 feet under…
How trees make cities healthier
Pascal Mittermaier Washington, DC – Last May, I had the dubious fortune of visiting Mumbai, India during the city’s hottest month on record. Temperatures remained at over 40°C (104°F) for days at time. The difference between standing in the shade…
Maritime ports asked to hoist cautionary signal no.4
Dhaka: The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist distant cautionary signal no. 4 as a deep convection is moving over the North Bay. The depression over west-central bay and adjoining area moved…
Kerry to be first US top diplomat to visit Antarctica
John Kerry, an ardent champion of the fight against climate change, will become the first top US diplomat to visit Antarctica, where the world’s largest protected marine reserve was just created. The State Department announced Friday the itinerary for Kerry…
Eiffel Tower lit green in honor of Paris climate change deal
Paris (AP/UNB) — The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris have temporarily been lit in green as a reminder to the world to enact the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Tiger census in Sundarbans to begin in mid-November
Dhaka – A tiger census using camera trapping method will begin in the Sundarbans in mid-November. “The census will continue for the next three months installing 300 cameras in the Sundarbans,” divisional forest officer (Sundarbans West Zone) Md Sayeed Ali…
‘World must cut a further 25% from predicted 2030 emissions’
London – The world must urgently and dramatically increase its ambition to cut roughly a further quarter off predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions and have any chance of minimizing dangerous climate change, UN Environment said today as it released its…
Paris deal strong enabler for renewable energy action: IRENA
Abu Dhabi – International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Director-General Adnan Z. Amin issued the following statement upon the entry into force of the Paris Agreement Friday: “IRENA welcomes the entry into force of the Paris Agreement and congratulates those Parties…