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Dhaka Thursday,  Mar 28, 2024

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Developing nations accused rich ones Thursday of stonewalling on finance in negotiations for a universal climate rescue pact — an issue they said would make or break the entire effort. The G77 bloc of developing nations, representing 80 percent of the world’s population, insists that firm funding commitments from developed nations must make it into the core of the agreement being shaped at talks in Bonn. But negotiators from rich... »
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Canada’s new leadership to play a strong role to help clinch a historic deal on climate change at the upcoming Paris conference. Canadian voters put Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in office in elections on Monday, ending nine years of conservative rule under Stephen Harper. Harper pulled Canada out of the landmark Kyoto Protocol on fighting climate change in 2011 because it did not apply... »
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today demanded for bringing high carbon emitting countries under legal bindings to disburse their committed fund to less carbon generating but climate change affected countries. “We are urging Bangladesh government to raise the issue of framing an agreement regarding legal binding in climate financing during the upcoming conference in Paris,” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman told a press conference at its office in Dhanmondi here. United... »
The Forest Department has officially announced that the number of the country’s iconic Royal Bengal Tiger is 106 in Bangladesh territory of the Sundarbans, as per the Tiger Census of 2015. According to the Indian findings, there are 76 tigers in the Sundarbans of India that made the total number of tigers 182 in the largest mangrove forest in the world, shared 60% by Bangladesh and 40% by India. Bangladesh... »
The Bangladesh Sundarbans, a unique mangrove ecosystem of the world and also the largest single mangrove forest of the world along with the Indian part has become the focal point of debate by a group of people within the country and also concern of the some environmental organization outside the country. Biodiversity conservation significance of the Sundarbans ecosystem is unequivocal. It is the only remaining mangrove forest in the world... »
India, the world’s third biggest carbon-emitting country, said Friday it was “confident” it could cut its emissions intensity by 35 percent by 2030 in the run-up to a key conference in Paris later this year. The environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced India’s climate pledges after the government submitted to the UN a new plan for tackling climate change, ahead of the COP21 meeting in November that will seek to forge... »
France said Sunday that it would ramp up foreign assistance, pumping in an extra four billion euros ($4.5 billion) per year starting in 2020. President Francois Hollande, announcing the aid boost at a United Nations summit on development, said the move would bring French aid to 12 billion euros annually. However, he did not specify how the assistance would be divided and whether it would go to fight poverty or... »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at gala reception here on Sunday evening received the highest environmental accolade “Champions of the Earth” award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for her outstanding leadership on the frontline of climate change. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner handed over the Award to Bangladesh Prime Minister appreciating her as an inspirational leader as she showed the necessity to work for environment protection and climate change.... »
Sky-watchers around the world are in for a treat Sunday night and Monday when the shadow of Earth casts a reddish glow on the moon, the result of rare combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year. The total “supermoon” lunar eclipse, also known as a “blood moon” is one that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in its orbit that... »
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at many places over the country on the Eid day, Friday. “It is raining in most parts of the country in this monsoon, there may be rain on Eid day, too,” said Director Bangladesh Meteorological Department M Shah ALAM told BSS. The possibility of rainfall will reduce in next three days from this morning, he added.