Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
A report released on the eve of climate change talks in Doha has suggested that rich countries have largely cheated the developing nations of the $30 billion funds they had committed to transfer to the poor ones between 2010 and 2012. The fund has largely been a green-wash - recycling …
With global climate action faltering and big emitters turning their back on legally-binding terms to reduce emissions, Doha, the capital of the emirate of Qatar in the Arabian peninsula, is going to be the venue for high-pitch drama and long negotiations for the next two weeks. The event will take …
Doha: A report released on the eve of climate change talks in Doha has suggested that rich countries have largely cheated the developing nations of the $30 billion funds they had committed to transfer to the poor ones between 2010 and 2012. The fund has largely been a green-wash — …
Germany will provide 10.97 million euros (equivalent to Tk 111.37 crore) to Bangladesh as climate change fund for cyclone affected people in the coastal areas particularly in Barguna and Patuakhali districts. The fund will be utilised for construction of solar-powered cyclone centres, installation of solar-irrigation pumps and development of other …
Germany, a key development partner of Bangladesh, will provide 10.98 million euros or Tk 111.37 crore to the government to help the country fight the impacts of climate change, officials said yesterday. The two countries will sign an agreement on the financial cooperation to this effect in Dhaka today to …
This report explores the crucial question of how to bridge the divide between increasing sources of adaptation finance, most of which currently exist at international or national levels, and local communities at the grassroots level that are facing the impacts of climate change. It explores to what extent local government …
Almost 50 of the world's poorest nations said pledges made by rich countries to provide funds to help them adapt to a warmer planet risk being overlooked as U.N. negotiations over a global climate pact to start in 2020 got underway in Bangkok on Wednesday. The group of mostly African …
Leaders of a fledgling U.N. green fund agreed at a first meeting on Saturday to pick a headquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee billions of dollars in aid to help developing nations fight global warming. The three-day meeting in Geneva heard pitches from the six countries …
The fate of billions of dollars of promised funding from rich countries to help the developing world adapt to climate change will be discussed on Thursday in Geneva, at the first meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund. The fund is meant to be the biggest single funding route for …
Norway will fund a Rs 25-crore climate change research and adaptation project in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Under the project, ClimaAdapt, selected farmers in the two States will be taught methods to mitigate the effects climate change on agriculture. While WALAMTARI (Water and Land Management Training and Research Institute) …
The fund is designed to help channel up to $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to climate change. However, the fund is an empty shell after last year's UN climate talks failed to make solid progress on sources of finance and the …
The Adaptation Fund was established to fund specific projects that developing countries undertake in order to adapt to climate change. The Fund is now fully operational, and a number of projects are underway. In many ways, the Adaptation Fund is a model for other climate funds. Its own future is …
The UNEP Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project has released a guidebook on climate change adaptation financing, titled “Assessing International Funding for Climate Change Adaptation: A Guidebook for Developing Countries.” The guidebook reviews options for international financing of adaptation activities and projects in developing countries. It examines public and private sources …
Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund has approved $153 million projects to fight adverse impacts of climate change. The fund will be disbursed under six projects including the three already finalised by the council governing over the BCCRF. The council at its second meeting held at environment and forest ministry on …
The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), announced an initial obligation of $9 million to support the Bangladesh Climate Cha-nge Resilience Fund. The total US grant to the fund is $13 million over four years, as announced by US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, …
EU nations should pledge that funds from paying for airline emissions will help poor countries deal with global warming, the bloc's climate chief said on Tuesday, after finance ministers stopped short of a firm commitment. Crisis in Greece and the euro-zone topped the agenda at the ministers' talks in Brussels, …
Green and right activists on Thursday demanded an end of World Bank’s role in the management of Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund by 2013. They expressed their concern that the government was trying to extend the time by five more years to 2018 for management of BCCRF by WB and …
EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change, even as the region's executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. The European Union recommitted to providing 7.2 billion euros …
This paper analyses potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to one of the main governance challenges of international adaptation funding - the prioritization of project proposals given scarce funding.
Why should the World Bank handle international fund for infrastructure building and such other disaster mitigations making Bangladesh dependent on its various hassles? World Bank, fiduciary manager for Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) on Monday came under fire at an independent watchdog body's opinion sharing meeting for allegedly dilly …
