Less than a week before the United Nations deadline for countries to file greenhouse-gas pledges necessary to keep a global climate change deal on track, it looks like most of the world is missing in action. Ahead of the March…
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Japan’s climate cash for coal plants in India, Bangladesh
By KARL RITTER and AIJAZ RAHI Associated Press MUTTAGI, India: Despite mounting protests, Japan continues to finance the building of coal-fired power plants with money earmarked for fighting climate change, with two new projects underway in India and Bangladesh, The…
Climate change poses threat to livelihood in Barind tract
Adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to the overall public health especially relating to water and sanitation in the region including the vast Barind tract.
Everything you wanted to know about climate change
By Manipadma Jena New Delhi, Feb (IPS) – So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future,…
For a strategic plan to limit global warming
Over 100 state and non-state partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) met in Kathmandu to develop a five-year strategic plan of action on Tuesday. “Our work will contribute to the pathway of limiting global warming to 2°C,…
Climate concern ‘linked to floods’
Public belief in the reality of climate change has risen in Britain, partly because of the 2013 winter floods, according to a report.
Kepler telescope identifies ancient solar system
An ancient solar system similar to our own has been discovered by scientists.
‘Extreme El Nino and La Nina events to increase in a warming world’
Peter Hannam The global climate is likely to become increasingly prone to extremes with super La Nina and El Nino events in the Pacific to almost double in frequency this century, according to Australian-led research. In a study published on…
New York shuts down as ‘historic’ snowstorm approaches
New York City and other areas in the north-east US have shut down as Winter Storm Juno is expected to dump as much as 90cm (36ins) of snow.
MPs: Ban fracking to meet carbon targets
An influential committee of MPs has called for a moratorium on fracking on the grounds that it could derail efforts to tackle climate change.
Tackling poverty, climate change two sides of the same coin
This year presents significant opportunities for the global community to lay the foundation for a development agenda that puts efforts to tackle climate change and poverty on the same path. In recent years, the development community’s efforts to eradicate extreme…
Integrated farming – only way to survive a rising sea
By Manipadma Jena Sunderbans, India, Jan (IPS) – When the gentle clucking grows louder, 50-year-old Sukomal Mandal calls out to his wife, who is busy grinding ingredients for a fish curry. She gets up to thrust leafy green stalks through…
Most fossil fuels ‘unburnable’ under 2C climate target
Most of the world’s fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground if dangerous global warming is to be avoided, modelling work suggests.
Record cold weather for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The lowest temperatures of 2014 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland were recorded overnight. Katesbridge, County Down, hit -8.8C (16.2F). Benson, Oxon, fell to -7.6C with -6.7C at Pembrey Sands, Dyfed. Latest figures show the UK’s coldest temperature of the…
Arctic ground squirrels unlock permafrost carbon
Scientists have found that the animals are hastening the release of greenhouse gases from the permafrost – a vast, frozen store of carbon. The researchers say it suggests the impact of wildlife on this area has been underplayed. The findings…
Dinajpur Chamber of commerce & Industry distribute blankets
Dinajpur (South): Members of Dinajpur Chambers of Commerce and Industry organised blankets have been distributed among the cold-hit distressed man and woman in dinajpur town on Tuesday.
Unusual cold bite hampers normal life in Rajshahi
The unusual cold weather caused bone chilling cold bite paralyzing normal life in the city and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the situation deteriorated further during the past 24 hours till 6 pm today.
Saturday was coldest day of the season, more Chilly days ahead
Shivring cold has gripped the country which is experiencing a mild to moderate cold wave which brought the season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday with the mercury dipping to 7.2 degrees Celsius. Weathermen have said that the…
Lima agrees deal – but leaves major issues for Paris
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz LIMA (IPS) – After a 25-hour extension, delegates from 195 countries reached agreement on a “bare minimum” of measures to combat climate change, and postponed big decisions on a new treaty until the 21st Conference of…
Despite Lima: 2014 brought new momentum for climate action
Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace International here is no question: COP20 utterly failed to translate the positive changes happening in the real world into the negotiated outcome. After China and the US had, for the first time ever together, agreed to reduce…
Let nature play a role in climate adaptation, experts urge
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the rainy season comes and floods the fields, poor families in northwest Bangladesh once cut trees to survive or went hungry. Now, however, they are raising fish in the floodplains – a change that…
UN members assent deal at Lima climate talks
United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks…
Lima climate talks: Summit continues through night
Talks have continued well past the official close of business on the final day of a key UN climate summit in Peru aimed at advancing a new global treaty. The negotiators in the capital, Lima, are tasked with preparing a…
The missing oceans
Ronny Jumeau, Seychelles Ambassador for Climate Change and SIDS Issues For islanders, the ocean is never an afterthought. The ocean is at the core of every part of our lives; we are shaped by it and in turn the way…
Water needs to be put on the global climate finance agenda
Maika Müller, Global Water Partnership (GWP) Water is the common medium through which a changing climate impacts us, but it is also the bloodstream of our universal wellbeing. The impacts of climate change through water are revealed in extreme weather…
Reflections from Lima climate negotiations: COP20, Day 9
Soscha de la Fuente, Dutch Youth Representative on Sustainable Development to the UN One of the big surprises for youth at this COP has been the Ministerial Declaration on Education and Awareness-raising, put forward by Peru and Poland. COP19 President…
Ten flights delayed due to foggy weather at Dhaka Airport
Operation of flights of several international airlines, which were scheduled to land or take off, faced an unusual delay at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Thursday due to dense fog-caused poor visibility. Sources at the airport said…
Unep’s adaptation gap report: Finance, technology, knowledge
Anna Kontorov (UNEP) and Anne Olhoff Since 2010, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has produced annual Emissions Gap Reports. These reports have supported the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations by providing an assessment of the gap between…
Climate change, decisive for increasing inequality, injustice in Bangladesh
Saleh Ahmed, Utah State University Climate change is an issue which has direct implications on increasing social, environmental, demographic, economic, and political challenges all around the world. The multiplier cascading effects of climate change contribute to further poverty and inequality,…
Linking the climate change, sustainable dev goals processes
Vositha Wijenayake, Joy Hyvarinen We are today at a crucial point in global development, with climate change widely recognised as a major threat to sustainable development. This means that the negotiations on new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are extremely…