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SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN
Date: 16-05-2013
THE CYCLONIC STORM “MAHASEN” WEAKENED SLIGHTLY BY GIVING PRECIPITATION AND MOVED NORTHEASTWARDS AND WAS CROSSING NOAKHALI - CHITTAGONG COAST NEAR SITAKUNDA AT 12 NOON TODAY (THE 16 MAY 2013). IT IS LIKELY TO MOVE NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION FURTHER INLAND AND MAY TAKE 3-5 HOURS TO COMPLETE CROSSING THE COAST. SEA WILL REMAIN ROUGH.
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SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN
Dhaka, 15 May 2013: THE CYCLONIC STORM “MAHASEN” (WITH ECP 990 HPA) OVER WEST CENTRAL BAY AND ADJOINING EAST CENTRAL BAY MOVED SLIGHTLY NORTH-NORTHEASTWARDS AND NOW LIES OVER WEST CENTRAL BAY AND ADJOINING NORTH BAY AND WAS CENTRED AT 06 PM TODAY (THE 15 MAY 2013) ABOUT 700 KMS SOUTHWEST OF CHITTAGONG PORT, 640 KMS SOUTHWEST OF COX’S BAZAR PORT AND 575 KMS SOU [...] |
Under One Per Cent of Clean Energy Technology Patents Filed in Africa
Nairobi, 13 May 2013 – Less than one per cent of all patent applications relating to Clean Energy Technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, highlighting an opportunity for the continent to leapfrog existing fossil-fuel energy sources and thus cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions and bring major health benefits.
A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Europ [...] |
Loss and Degradation of Natural Habitats Threaten Migratory Birds
Bonn/Nairobi 10 May 2013 – The annual migration of an estimated 50 billion birds— around 19 per cent of the world’s 10,000 bird species—is one of the world’s great natural wonders, yet the critical staging areas migratory birds need to complete these journeys are being degraded or are disappearing completely.
These increasingly vulnerable [...] |
New study shows importance of IUCN s Red List of Ecosystems
Gland, Switzerland, 8 May, 2013 (IUCN) – A new global standard in assessing environmental risk, the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, has been trialled on 20 ecosystems spanning six continents and three oceans.
"By knowing which ecosystems are tracking well and which ones are in trouble, governments, industries and local communities will be well-positioned to [...] |
UNEP Report Shows How Advancing the Green Economy
Geneva, 8 May 2013 – Greening global trade is a vital step to achieving sustainable development, and developing countries are well positioned to help catalyze this transition, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
“In today’s increasingly interconnected world, where trillions of dollars worth of goods a [...] |
Heavy rainfall may occur
Due to Kalbaishaki squall, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places over Chittagong, Barisal and Sylhet divisions during the next 24 hrs commencing from 3 pm today.
Landslide may occur at places over the hilly regions of Chittagong & Sylhet divisions, a warning message of Met Office said.
Deep convection taking place over North Bay
Deep convect [...] |
Norwester claims many bird lives
Shah Mamunul Haque Vuya (Sweet):
A recent nor’wester killed many birds of different species at a village of Jhenidah district. Moreover it caused the extinction of some rare species and the total scenery of the district became more dreadful during the storm. The nor’wester uprooted numerous trees which were the main shelters of these birds. The rest of the birds [...] |
ADB must to be Sweet (Democratized) or Quit (Get out) from Asia
3rd May 2013, in India, NGO Forum on ADB (Bangladesh Chapter, a CSO network on campaign & advocacy) and with his other international allies have conduct a mass rally protesting ADB aggression on the poor people and their livelihood in name so called development in South Asia and demand to stop ADB activities just now.
The participants from the rally has also condem [...] |
GEF CEO Joins in Launch of India Cleantech Program
NEW DELHI, India, May 3, 2013 – Clean technology entrepreneurs in India will benefit from international support under a program launched today by the head of the Global Environment Facility and high-level Indian Government and private-sector officials.
“The planet is entering into the Anthropocene, a new ecological era in which human’s activities may go bey [...] |
New focus on injecting fairness into climate talks a cause for hope
Bonn, Germany - May 3, 2013: Experts from Climate Action Network International welcomed a new, positive dynamic emerging from the year’s first UN negotiations in Bonn this week, but urged leaders to ensure that the 2015 climate plan is robust enough to save the planet.
While many countries continued to present their same hackneyed positions in the pl [...] |
Need Action Pre-2020: Observers react to close of UN Climate Talks
BONN, GERMANY - Today (3rd may) - As weeklong UN climate talks closed, observers urged the process to take aim at climate polluting energy production.
"Red alert alarm bells are ringing in every corner of the globe - more droughts, more storms, more devastation because of climate change. This is a planetary emergency that is impacting the world's poorest fi [...] |
A billion-dollar business puts species and people at risk
Gland, Switzerland, 28 April 2013 – At least 12% of groupers – globally-important food fish species that live on coral and rocky reefs – face extinction, putting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people around the world at risk, finds a report published today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission’s (I [...] |
Global law Enforcement body Commits to Tackling Wildlife & Forest crimes
VIENNA: The United Nations’ anti-crime body Friday (26 April) resolved to step up the global fight against wildlife and forest crime in recognition of the urgent threat it poses and the serious nature of the criminal networks involved.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has been pressing for special agencies tasked with crime fighting to turn their [...] |
Earth Day Puts a Face on Climate Change
WASHINGTON – Today (22 April) is Earth Day, and over one billion people in approximately 192 countries are taking action to protect the environment. From London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome to Cairo, people everywhere are mobilizing their communities and helping depict The Face of Climate Change, the theme of Earth Day 2013.
E [...] |
Bangladesh can reduce greenhouse gas emission by 22 percent
Bangladesh can slash greenhouse gas emissions by around 22 percent by 2020 through introducing a variety of clean technologies that would cost less than US$ 10 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent, according to a study from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
“In Bangladesh , the sea level is predicted to rise 45 centimeters by 2050, affecting 10 percent-15 percent of the [...] |
Tenth meeting of Cartagena Dialogue held in Dhaka
Tenth meeting of Cartagena Dialogue for Progressive Actions has been held in Dhaka during 8-9 April 2013, aiming to come up with some consensus about Legally Binding Agreement, which is supposed to be finalized in 2015 at COP 21. The meeting also discussed about review of Pre-2020 mitigation reduction ambitions under UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ministry of Enviro [...] |
35.54m USA assistance to face Bangladeshs climate change challenges
Bangladesh would get US$ 35.54 million equivalent to Taka 280 crore as financial assistance to face the threat created due to climate change, said US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on March 27.
The US envoy disclosed the financial assistance at a meeting with Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud at his secretariat office on Wednesday. USAID deputy adm [...] |
Women are mostly affected by climate change
Shah Mamunul Haque Vuya:
Coastal women are mostly affected by the change of climate as they are being homeless, insecurity impels. They are spreading over the different cities of the country.
Aila victim Safura is one of them. In search of work, she has come to Jessore from Shyamnagar thana of Sathkhira. He said, I am homeless now, all of my assets been destroyed, I am sea [...] |
Moylapota now a hazardous place for public
Shah Mamunul Haque Vuya:
Moylapota at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore district is the pre-fixed place to bin garbage so that environment of this area stays sound. But flouting the rules, it is being binned sporadically causing soil, water and air pollution every now and then. It is also damaging beauty of Jhumjhumpur.
There is no proper management to control the hazardous situa [...] |
Knowledge must to face climate change challenges
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Tuesday said climate change, unplanned urbanisation, irregular human mobility with manifold ramifications are just knocking the door, which are certain to affect the population dynamics in so many ways, reports UNB.
“We must acknowledge that beginning 2015, in the next cycle, we’re likely to face challenges much greater, complex and [...] |
More secured habitat of tigers emphasized
Shah Mamunul Haque Vuya: Speakers at a roundtable meeting titled `Scientific Monitoring of Tigers in The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh’ emphasized for the more secured habitat of tigers to shun clash between man and tiger. Wildlife Trust Bangladesh and Forest Department jointly organized the two-day long roundtable meeting which was inaugurated by Environment a [...] |
Sharks, rhinos and elephants among wildlife trade summit winners
Bangkok, Thailand, 14 March 2013 – A historic vote to improve the sustainability of the international trade of eight species of sharks and rays that are listed as threatened on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is among the key decisions taken at the CITES wildlife trade summit closing today in Bangkok.
Other decisions taken at the 16th meeting of the C [...] |
CITES MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR TIGERS, ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS: NGOs
The global treaty charged with ensuring wildlife is not commercially exploited to extinction[1] fell short of putting the breaks on poaching of elephants, tigers, and rhinos at its biannual meeting that closes today in Bangkok.
Poaching and trafficking of elephants, tigers and rhinos is at crisis levels, yet domestic trade is still allowed and international trade in the body p [...] |
Black will take no other hue
By Shah Mamunul Haque Vuya:
Moilapota is adjacent to Jessore-Narail highway. Hundreds of passengers are passing on this highway through various vehicles. They have to face this odd situation everyday. Financed by UNDP, Prism Bangladesh Project is working to bin garbage after collecting from every dustbin of Jessore city. It worked well in the very beginning but it did not wo [...] |
Wake up and smell the air
By Sunita Narain:
Our health is not on anybody’s agenda. Or, we just don’t seem to make
the connections between the growing burden of disease and the
deteriorating condition of our environment. We don’t really believe the
science, which tells us each passing day how toxins affect our bodies,
leading to high rates of both morbidity and mortality. It is [...] |
CHINA PUTS THE CON IN TIGER CONSERVATION
LONDON: Despite signing up to global initiatives seeking to protect wild tigers and double their number by 2022, Government departments in China have quietly set about stimulating domestic markets for tiger skins and body parts.
As few as 3,500 tigers survive in the wild, yet more than 5,000 captive-bred tigers are held in Chinese ‘farms’ and ‘zoo [...] |
Almost one in five reptiles are struggling to survive
Gland, Switzerland, 15 February 2013 – Nineteen percent of the world’s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published today by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).
The study, printed in the journal of Biological Conservation, is the first of [...] |
Energy utility RWE and the IUCN join forces for nature
Essen, Germany/Gland, Switzerland, 25 January 2013 – Friday, Germany’s number one power producer RWE and IUCN signed a three-year agreement on biodiversity management at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The aim is to further integrate protection of biological diversity into the corporate business decisions of the company.
“In our increasingly po [...] |
Earth Day Network Plants 350,000 Trees in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda – Earth Day Network completed a tree-planting project in central Uganda today that saw 350,000 trees planted in three high-poverty districts: Kiboga-Kyankwanzi, Kayunga and Kamuli.
“I’m happy to have planted Calliandra trees as a fence on my land,” said Henry William Kunduba, a farmer in Balawori Kamuli. “I also use them to fee [...] |
Doha Outcome is for Climate Inaction and Injustice
Dhaka, 17th December 2012 : Today seven civil society networks of Bangladesh in a press conference has termed the Doha Climate Conference outcome in fact is for climate injustice toward climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh and let the developed countries to do inaction in respect of finance and carbon emission.
The press conference titled “Doha Gateway: Life and [...] |
No Doha Deal means Accepting Climate Genocide in Poor Countries
Doha, 6th December 2012. Today Bangladeshi CSO climate networks namely BAPA, BIPNetCCBD, CCDF, CSRL, CFGN, EquityBD and NCCB conducted a press conference in QNCC, Doha where CoP 18 UNFCCC Climate Conference are happening, there are only one day remain to conclude the conference. The civil societies expressed frustration and condemned the attitude of developed countries especial [...] |
No oasis for climate in Doha desert
[Doha – Qatar] – December 8, 2012 – The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I).
Two weeks [...] |
Climate Change and Health in Sustainable Development Goals: LDC perspect
Dr Md Iqbal Kabir :
There is now widespread agreement that current trends in energy use development and population growth will lead to continuing – and more severe – climate change. The changing climate will inevitably affect the basic requirements for maintaining health: clean air and water, sanitary environments, sufficient food and adequate shelter. Many diseas [...] |
Turkey's Love Affair with Coal is a Real Fossil
The Climate Action Network-International presents the Fossil of the Day Awards every day to the country voted to have done their best to block progress in the UN climate negotiations. It is a humourous take on a serious issue.
The First Place Fossil is awarded to Turkey. Although Turkey is the world's fourth largest investor in coal, recording the largest relative increas [...] |
Finance and EU rifts could threaten COP19 progress
[Doha – Qatar] – November 28, 2012 – Half way through the first week of the major climate talks of the year a number of worrying fault lines have emerged which have the potential to derail the Doha negotiations if they are not resolved, NGO experts warned. The Polish Government – who will today be announced as host of next year's major climate talks - [...] |
AWG-LCA: Developed countries oppose Chair’s overview text
Doha, 28 Nov (Meena Raman) – The opening plenary of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) under the UNFCCC, held on Tuesday, 27 November in Doha, saw Parties divided over how to treat the informal overview text produced by its Chair, Mr. Aysar Tayeb (Saudi Arabia).
The AWG-LCA is tasked to reach an agreed outcome under the Bali Acti [...] |
US, EU and Rich Countries, Cut Your Emission First
Dhaka, 22nd November 2012. Thusday seven civil society climate networks has organized a march from press club to Jatiya Sahid Minar (National Language Movement Monument) on the eve of upcoming Doha Climate Conference to be held in Doha, Qatar during November 26 to December 7 and organized a rally there, they have demanded that UU, EU and Rich Countries to Cut their emissi [...] |
Civil Society Urged Government Delegation
Emphasize on Equity and Justice and Climate Vulnerable Country’s Interest in Doha Climate Conference
Dhaka, 16th November 2012. Seven civil society climate network urged government delegation in Doha climate conference to emphasize on equity and justice and uphold climate vulnerable country interest. The seven network namely Bangladesh Poribesh Andoloan (BAPA), Banglades [...] |
Council supports CEO Naoko Ishii’s initiative to develop GEF 2020 strate
WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 16, 2012 – The Global Environment Facility Council strongly supported CEO Naoko Ishii’s initiative to conduct a “GEF 2020” strategic exercise. It will help position the organization to catalyze international efforts for transformational change in responding to growing global environmental threats.
The 43rd meeting of the GEF Counc [...] |
Declaration: Climate Justice Week 2012
The civil society organizations, non-government organizations, activist’s organizations and academia of Bangladesh, following a week long mobilization at 23 districts of the country, expressing our deep concern on world-leaders’ lack of political will in combating anthropogenic climate change that already has increased the intensity and frequency of weather re [...] |
Demands Climate Justice
Khulna, 14 November 2012: Green Activists presented death of thousand people in cyclone Sidr to show destruction of climate change in Bangladesh. The groups organized a Mock/Stunt in Khulna city today with a scene of dead people in front of human chain and gathering demanding climate justice in upcoming UN Climate Conference. Non-government organization Humanitywatch orga [...] |
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