Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
More than 600 young people in Sweden, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state, accusing the country of climate inaction for the first time. “There has never been a case on such a large scale in the Swedish legal system”, Ida Edling, Aurora, a member of the organization […]
She decided to do it anyway, and is now the only female easy bike rider in her northwestern town of Sunamganj. “Initially, most people discouraged me from working as a driver,” she said. “Now that they know me, they support my work.” For Sharmind Nilormi, an expert on climate and gender at Jahangirnagar University, the […]
Today’s global People’s Climate March sends an important signal to world leaders gathering for the UN Climate Summit on September 23. With evidence growing of the speed of climate change, Bangladesh faces huge threats as rising water levels may permanently inundate entire districts of our low-lying country. As a nation on the front line, Bangladesh […]
Bangladesh needs about $5.7 billion as instrumentation price to face the increasing risks of cyclones as good as internal monsoon floods in the becoming opposite meridian by 2050, says the World Bank report. The instrumentation price for railways, highway networks, embankments as good as drainage infrastructure to equivalent the single some-more overflow due to internal […]
A marathon UN meridian discussion yesterday authorized a roadmap towards an settle which for a initial time will move all critical greenhouse-gas emitters underneath a singular authorised roof. The European Union will place a stream emission-cutting pledges inside a legally-binding Kyoto Protocol, a pass direct of building countries. Talks upon a latest authorised understanding covering […]
UN arch Ban Ki-moon has warned meridian talks which disaster to strike deadlock placed a universe in peril, as great as begged countries to gangling a involved Kyoto Protocol. “Without exaggeration, you can say: a destiny of a universe is during seductiveness — people’s lives, a illness of a tellurian economy, a really presence of […]
A dense fog covered much of the country for the last 2 days leading to major traffic disruptions in air and water ways, although temperature rose a bit after three freezing days. Two international flights were cancelled and most of the flights were delayed in both landing and departure due to a very poor visibility, […]
The Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, received the assurance that Bangladesh would get adequate fund from EU Climate Change Adaptation Fund when she separately met with the president of Council of the European Union, Van Rompuy and the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Thursday morning. (25-11-10) Among others the foreign minister, Dipu […]
According to a report published in this month by World Bank called Climate Proofing Infrastructure in Bangladesh, it would require 267 crore USD to raise the infrastructures viz., roads, railroads and flood protection barriers. This includes 26000 km of roads rail-roads 603 km of railroad and 5 km of flood protection barrier. According to experts, […]
An inter-ministerial and stakeholder national workshop on climate investment and finance will be held at National Press Club here at 12.30 noon tomorrow. Organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF) and UNDP, the day- long workshop will be opened by Environment Secretary Dr Mihir Kanti Majumder and will be addressed by team leaders […]
