New York – Underscoring the need for ensuring equitable sharing of transboundary water bodies, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said water should be considered as an integral part of the new development architecture and strongly advocated for creating a global…
Meraz Mostafa It’s getting close to November, which means delegates to the UN climate talks will once gather to discuss climate change: This time in Marrakesh, Morocco. This will be the first UN climate conference since countries agreed to the…
AFP – At least 30 countries will on Wednesday formally join the Paris agreement on climate change, moving it closer to reality, according to the United Nations. The global body said 30 states would submit their ratification at the UN…
Will the world achieve the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030? What can business do to lead the charge? DNV GL set out to answer these two critical questions in its new forecast examining the future of…
New York – Today, as President Obama and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were inside the U.N. General Assembly meeting, Bangladeshi-American, environmental, and other groups rallied outside to protest the development of coal-fired power plants near the Sundarbans, a UNESCO…
Philippines (AP/UNB) – A Philippine senator who led an investigation into the president’s bloody anti-drug campaign was ousted Monday from the justice committee in a vote that human rights advocates said could derail accountability in the crackdown. President Rodrigo Duterte’s…
At an estimated 80% of beef cattle feeding operations in America farmers use artificial growth hormones to make the animals grow faster. But the practice is rare in the country’s north-eastern states. Hilary Niles visited one farm in Vermont to…
Brazil’s President Michel Temer on Monday ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, which commits Brazil to reducing its carbon emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels.In a ceremony in Brasilia, Temer highlighted that Brazil has made a…
Dhaka – The aspirations for a fairer world set out in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will only be met if there is more democracy worldwide, said the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on Wednesday, UNB news agency reported..…
The Minister for Environment and Food is taking the first steps towards rules on scrapping ships that will ensure that people and the environment are better protected globally when ships are broken up and recycled.Worldwide, approximately 1,000 scrap merchant vessels…
News Desk The global challenges posed by climate change also offer business opportunities to address those. These opportunities are based on new values of utilising resources sustain-ably taking care of their continued regeneration, instead of using those up to meet current…
Manila (Hilary Chiew) – Developing countries expressed their deep concerns that discussions on financial instruments to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change are overly focused on addressing the risks of loss and damage rather…
The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims has been celebrated in Bangladesh. This Eid was of special significance because its central theme is making sacrifice for the satisfaction of Allah Almighty It’s a tradition that has descended…
Lima (AP/UNB) – Four centuries ago the Count of San Isidro planted nearly 2,000 olive trees from his native Spain in a sprawling grove on the edges of Lima, the capital of colonial Peru. Perfectly suited to the arid climate,…
Danielle Nierenberg According to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), close to 17 percent of the world’s livestock breeds face extinction. Many of these livestock breeds are indigenous, adapted to local conditions with long agricultural and pastoral traditions. Africa…
Aiming to focus public attention on the exquisite natural beauty of the country’s second largest wetland and the immense tourism potential it holds, the local administration is going to organise a two-day ‘Haor Festival’ at Tanguar Haor in Tahirpur upazila…
Researchers from the Vienna-based Institute for Comparative Survey Research surveyed 86,000 people from 60 countries worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2014 to gain insight into the relative importance of a select set of values. These values were: family,…
It’s been almost one year since heads of state and government adopted ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ – the ambitious agenda which contains 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets during a special session of…
g20- As leaders from the Group of Twenty (G20) gathered for their 11th Summit in Hangzhou, China, on 4-5 September, there was no shortage of pressure from non-state actors for the Group to place climate change and related issues prominently…
The global economy is in transition. Anywhere you look in the world, you can see this. From private companies embracing clean technology and clean energy, to countries putting sustainable growth at the center of national planning, the drive is toward…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) attaches great importance to engaging with civil society and ensuring that policies and lending activity reflect the recognition of the importance of climate action, that the EIB shares with a broad range of stakeholders.The EIB…
“Why don’t the authorities put themselves in our shoes?” asked Cándido Mezúa, an indigenous man from Panama, with respect to native peoples’ participation in conservation policies and the sharing of benefits from the protection of forests.Mezúa, who belongs to the…
Beijing (AP/UNB) — China announced on Saturday that it has ratified the emissions-cutting agreement reached last year in Paris, giving a big boost to efforts to bring the accord into effect by the end of this year. The United States…
Speakers at a discussion today urged the government to declare Halda, one of the world’s major natural sweet water fish breeding spots, as the national river of Bangladesh.They also demanded to stop any construction that hinders flow of the river…
A campaign has been launched seeking support support for the International Monsanto Tribunal which is scheduled for 14-16 October in The Haque. A statement has been floated as under for registering support to the initiative.
It’s been almost one year since heads of state and government adopted ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ – the ambitious agenda which contains 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets during a special session of…
A 10-year study conducted by the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in two sub-counties in Kenyahas found that with lower input costs lower and higher market prices for organic produce, incomes for organic farmers start to be higher…
ASM Abdur Rab, president, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan, general sewcretary, Bangladesher Samajtanrtrik Dal (BSD) and SM Akram, chief adviser, Nagoric Oikya on Saturday expressed their solidarity with the movement to protect the sunderbands by atopping the proposed coal-fired…
Dhaka – Is Ramphal coal-powered thermal power plant going to be the next flash point? This question is being asked by neutral obserers as the National Committee on Oil, Gas and Ports have vowed to stop the prospect by utilising…
For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency. Some opposition MPs said the new civil defence concept, to go before ministers on Wednesday,…