A thorough and strategic approach is required to defend against the recurrent floods and climatic disasters Bangladesh faces.
We cannot continue to allow wealthy countries to externalise the damage of their pollution spree.
This new initiative aims to support both governments and civil societies in the vulnerable countries to enhance their knowledge of and responses to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change.
Public financing from developed countries will never be sufficient.
The estimates of the total losses and damages run into many trillions of US dollars.
There has been a wave of climate change policies in recent years, but unfortunately, implementation efforts have remained fragmented.
Poverty rates in recent years have demonstrated an impressive steady improvement in Bangladesh.
On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.
The young population in the coastal villages want to develop their skills and knowledge and advance their career.
People living in climate-vulnerable areas urgently need government support
It is estimated that Bangladesh may see 13 million internal climate migrants by 2050.
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to all kinds of climate-change-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, cyclones, storm surges, sea-level rise, landslides, heat, and cold stresses.
Let me give a glimpse into the ups and downs in the US’ involvement in sometimes being a leader and sometimes a laggard when it comes to climate solutions, and where it stands today.
Several factors must be taken into consideration while developing a sustainable model for providing solutions to communities.
The ongoing flood in the northwest has so far claimed at least 22 lives in Sylhet and Netrakona, with the death toll expected to go up as information from remote areas is coming to the authorities belatedly.
Bangladesh will call for green finance and global cooperation at the Stockholm +50 that began in Sweden today (June 2, 2022), as the country bears the brunt of climate change impacts because of Covid-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.