Dhaka to seek help to tackle climate change
Bangladesh will seek developed country's support for capacity building of its people to tackle the adverse effects of climate change caused by global warming.
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Agenda eclipsed by global warming
At the Group of 20 summit in April, climate change merited barely a passing reference - it was the 28th out of 29 points listed in the final communiqu
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Dhaka seeks $5b in climate compensation
Bangladesh has sought $5 billion from the developed countries in compensation as an affected country due to climate change caused by global warming.
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Dhaka seeks $5b in compensation
Bangladesh has sought 5 billion US dollars from the developed countries in compensation as an affected country due to climate change caused by global warming. An official announcement in Dhaka yesterday said, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud placed the demand during a high-profile meeting of the United Nations on environment affairs.
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UN climate talks could fail (Editorial)
EUROPEAN ministers warned that December's landmark UN climate talks could fail, as the EU Commission urged rich nations to stump up tens of billions of euros to help the developing world combat global warming.
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WB help for social safety net, poverty alleviation assured
The World Bank offered to provide Bangladesh necessary supports for creating its social-safety net, alleviating poverty and developing infrastructures. The assurance came from the World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, when he called on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at her suite at Hotel Grand Hyatt at 17:30pm (local time) Wednesday.
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Dhaka seeks $5b in compensation
Bangladesh has sought 5 billion US dollars from the developed countries in compensation as an affected country due to climate change caused by global warming. An official announcement in Dhaka yesterday said, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud placed the demand during a high-profile meeting of the United Nations on environment affairs.
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Dhaka to seek help to tackle climate change
Bangladesh will seek developed country's support for capacity building of its people to tackle the adverse effects of climate change caused by global warming.
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Rising sea levels hit: Bangladesh livelihoods
Over his 45 years, Siddique Ur-Rahman, a Bangladeshi rice farmer, has watched as his world has been gradually swallowed by water.
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U.N. Climate Meeting Was Propaganda: Czech President
Czech President Vaclav Klaus sharply criticized a U.N. meeting on climate change on Tuesday at which U.S. President Barack Obama was among the top speakers, describing it as propagandistic and undignified. "It was sad and it was frustrating," said Klaus, one of the world's most vocal skeptics on the topic of global warming.
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China, South Korea Lead In Green Stimulus Investment
South Korea and China lead the world's 20 largest economies in the percentage of economic stimulus money they invest in environmental projects, the U.N. Environment Program reported on Thursday. Other members of the Group of 20 leading economic powers, including the United States, trail behind in percentage of green investment from stimulus money, the agency found.
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Remember G20, Smoky City is where global warming started
Siddharth Varadarajan
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The El Nino with a difference
Patterns of sea-surface warming and cooling in the tropical Pacific seem to be changing, as do the associated atmospheric effects. Increased global warming is implicated in these shifts in El Ni
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El Nio in a changing climate
A distinctly different type of El Ni
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U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel
With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead.
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City cleaner, BMC richer after Gorai dump closure
In a landmark for carbon financing in India, the BMC on Tuesday earned Rs 26 crore for the scientific closure of its Gorai dumping ground. The cheque from the Asian Development Bank is an advance for future delivery of carbon credits.
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Natural disasters displacing millions: UN study
Floods, storms, drought and other climate-related natural disasters drove 20 million people from their homes last year, nearly four times as many as were displaced by conflicts, a new UN report said on Tuesday. The study tried to quantify for the first time the number of people forced to flee their homes because of climate change.
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Antarctic Coastal Ice Thinning Surprises Experts
Scientists are surprised at how extensively coastal ice in Antarctica and Greenland is thinning, according to a study Wednesday that could help predict rising sea levels linked to climate change.
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Developed nations should take responsibility
Lamenting the fact that developed countries were shying away from their responsibilities in tackling climate change, Minister of External Affairs S M Krishna has said the