The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the South Asia region. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and gross domestic product per capita - and where available – other indicators …
Shifting cultivation is commonly perceived as a primitive agricultural practice, economically unviable and a cause of tropical deforestation and environmental degradation. Despite growing scientific evidence to the contrary and a revision of this position by several countries and international agencies, policies based on this misconception replace the practice with settled …
Growth in the region is expected to slow sharply to 2.2% in 2020 under the effects of the current health emergency and then rebound to 6.2% in 2021. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized economies, growth will drop from 5.7% to 2.4% this year before recovering to 6.7% next year. Headline …
Developing countries must negotiate strongly in the environment summit in Paris for "fairness and equity" to enable them to meet their developmental needs, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) chief Sunita Narain said on Thursday. "Fairness and equity are key for ensuring developing countries are able to meet their development …
Water: Depleting water sources and absence of concrete solution in most gewogs of Trashigang has left farmers worried even as the dzongkhag administration is surveying the situation. Although the gewogs are trying out various preventive measures, gups said the situation only worsened over the years. About 12 gewogs have reported …
Forest fire: Thimphu city was briefly under a thick blanket of smoke yesterday when a forest fire that started opposite Bap lhakhang raged on for hours destroying more than 100 acres of blue pine forest. About 300 people including Desuups, members of armed forces, forestry officials and volunteers battled the …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa instructed the authorities to provide immediate relief in a systematic and organised manner to the people in areas affected by inclement weather. The President personally looked into the needs of the affected families and directed the Disaster Management Minister, Special Projects Minister, District Secretaries and the defence …
Badulla: At least three persons were killed and several others have gone missing due to a landslide in the Rilpola area in Badulla today, police said. Three bodies have been recovered so far after a landslide damaged around five houses in the Rilpola area. Police said at least 10 individuals …
Islamabad—In its ongoing anti-encroachment campaign, the District Administration has cleared land of National Highway Authority (NHA) from encroachers in Rawat area of the Federal Capital. According to detail, Assistant Commissioner, Rural, Amna Rafique, conducted anti-encroachment operation in Rawat area and cleared the encroached land of the National Highway Authority. A …
Islamabad—On the direction of Chairman CDA, Maroof Afzal, the Environment Wing of the authority has imposed more than Rs.200,000 fine on people involved in illegal tree cutting in the capital during the last two months. Member environment, Mustafain Kazmi talking to media said that illegal cutting, transportation and sale of …
Islamabad—Using various tactics to entice people, especially youth, tobacco industry has been killing over 100,000 Pakistanis every year. Around 1200 children initiate smoking daily while the government feeding on the annual revenue of Rs15 billion paid by the industry, is indifferent to their plight. Hundreds of visitors, mostly health professionals …
LAHORE - The government is perhaps towing the policy of destruction after construction. The Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (Tepa) has started digging the newly-constructed Ferozpur Road to build a bridge on the Samanabad Nullah – one of the portions of LOS-Multan Road Dual Carriageway. The digging has deeply disturbed …
Rawalpindi - As the un-availability of natural gas marred the lives of people in chilly weather, the logger mafia is out on the dangerous mission of stealing woods from forests illegally and to sell it out at the hands of wood-sellers in various areas of the division, reliable sources told …
At least 82 brick fields, out of 150, in the Lakshmipur district are operating without the approval of the administration. They also did not follow any guideline while being set up. These illegal kilns, made with old style tin-chimney, are using wood instead of coal creating an environmental hazard. Moreover, …
DHAKA : Experts at a discussion here on Wednesday said the outcome of the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20) held recently in Lima, Peru have disappointed Bangladesh and other developing countries as it failed to deal adequately with adaptation, losses and damage caused by climate change, reports UNB. They …
DHAKA : The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Wednesday approved five proposals, including the Bhairab River Re-excavation Project in Meherpur to be implemented by Dockyard and Engineering Works Ltd, a company run by Bangladesh Navy, reports UNB. A meeting of the Cabinet body, chaired by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, gave nod …
Bangladesh has to play a proactive role to make the global leaders understand the significance of signing a legally binding protocol on climate change in the Paris summit in December 2015, speakers told a discussion on the recently concluded Lima conference yesterday. The inability to sign the protocol would make …
The team of experts from the United Nations arrived at the Sundarbans on Monday to investigate the place of the oil spill. The government yesterday sealed the navigation route through the Sela River in the Sundarbans for all kinds of vessels including small boats to make sure that the visiting …
DHAKA : A project to address extreme monsoon flooding helped communities find solutions to tackling climate change affect with so far saving assets and livelihoods of 15,000 families from flood, reports BSS. Financially assisted by the World Bank (WB), the Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) under the Bangladesh Climate Change …
RAJSHAHI : Solar panel is going to be installed in 86 educational institutions in Rajshahi metropolis aiming at reducing the gradually rising pressure on electricity, reports BSS. During the current 2014- 15 financial year, the scheme will be implemented under the rural infrastructure maintenance programme on priority basis. Fazley Hossain …
