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 …
Climate change is an urgent concern in Nepal. In recent years, the country has faced more than its fair share of extreme weather patterns. Increases in temperature extremes, more intense rainfall, drier winters and delays in summer monsoons have become quite common and are expected to get worse. In fact, …
Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh Dr Urs Herren meets Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office yesterday. Photo: PIDUnb, Dhaka Swiss Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Urs Harren met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office yesterday and discussed bilateral issues of mutual interest. On climate change, the ambassador informed …
THE conference on climate change that con cluded last week at Cancun in Mexico was a success. It should be seen against the backdrop of last year's disastrous meet at Copenhagen. The near-unanimity with which the Cancun agreements were adopted is, in fact, a measure of its success. Even Bolivia, …
The European Union (EU) has contributed 8.5 million pounds to Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) to help face climate change multiple impacts. The government and the EU signed an agreement to this end recently, said an EU statement. The fund aims to support until 2015 climate change adaptation, mitigation …
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has been praised for his role as a bridge-builder on contentious issues at the UN climate conference here which ended with a deal to curb global warming, including a $100 billion fund to help developing countries. The two-week long conference closed on Friday with, Cancun Agreement, …
India must make a strong case at the ongoing U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancun for substantial international funding for carbon mitigation. There is justified disappointment that the developed countries have not delivered on the promise of a $30 billion fast start fund made last year in Copenhagen and the …
Amitabh Sinha In the first significant announcement at the climate change conference here, the European Union put forward about $2.9 billion as its contribution to the fast-start fund that is supposed to help the most vulnerable countries in dealing with the adverse impacts of climate change. The money is part …
Bangladesh on Wednesday called for billions of dollars to be made available quickly for its fight against climate change, as United Nations' environment talks entered their third day in Mexico. The low-lying country is vulnerable to the catastrophic impact of global warming with natural disasters killing nearly 200,000 people in …
Meena Menon CANCUN: The European Union (EU) will support India's proposal for an International Consultation and Analysis (ICA), which is likely to be a controversial topic at the United Nations climate change conference here. Sources in the EU said they were interested in an ICA but not as a condition …
Amitabh Sinha In the first significant announcement at the climate change conference here, the European Union put forward about $2.9 billion as its contribution to the fast-start fund that is supposed to help the most vulnerable countries in dealing with the adverse impacts of climate change. The money is part …
Funding a response to climate change after Kyoto will require another look at both burden sharing and funding mechanisms. After reviewing the risks of cap-and-trade with carbon offsets and the advantages of a harmonized carbon tax, a method is proposed to utilize a harmonized carbon tax to finance a global …
Developed nations should begin to deliver the US$ 30 billion fast, which is necessary to build the trust and goodwill for the negotiations at Cancun, which starts in Mexico, India
European Union leaders have assured that Bangladesh will get adequate funding from the promised European Union Climate Change Adaptation Fund. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the assurance when she separately met with President of Council of the European Union Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso …
Failure to create the 30-billion dollars climate fund even after one year of international commitment in Copenhagen will badly affect developing countries like Bangladesh, the Maldives and Ethiopia, said environmentalists at a climate change workshop in Delhi yesterday. Indian minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, however, said …
Developed countries at the 15th Conference had committed themselves to providing around $30 billion for 2010-12 The fund is for supporting developing countries' climate efforts No clarity on how donors will channel the NEW DELHI: Developed countries are failing to meet the funding pledges that they made at the Climate …
While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today. Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in …
