Tag: Climate Change

The impact of climate change on a biodiversity hot spot

- Simone Galimberti, IPS -

If there is a place where the interlinkages and dependencies between the effects of climate warming and biodiversity loss are clearly at display, it’s Nepal. There is clear evidence on the impact of climate change on the country’s ecosystem considering the fact that Nepal is an important biodiversity hotspot. Climate change

Climate change taking a major toll on Bangladesh agriculture

- Asif Saleh -

Half the world eats rice. In Bangladesh, everyone eats it. The small, densely-populated nation is the third-highest rice-producing country in the world. For a nation of 170 million people which has suffered through some of the world’s worst famines, this ranking holds special significance. While Bangladesh is mostly self-sufficient in food

EBL to launch climate change award

- Times Report -

Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) is set to launch the Climate Change Adaptation Award this year, a press release said Tuesday. The award, to be given annually, aims to recognize and celebrate the best practices and innovations in climate change adaptation, resilience, and mitigation in Bangladesh by different business entities, organizations,

COP28: Time to convert climate change rhetoric into action

- Stella Paul, IPS -

It is crucial to narrow the gaps and ensure that climate finance goes to where people are most vulnerable, says Gernot Laganda, Director of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)—especially as the most fragile states only receive USD 2.1 per capita

The case for climate justice

- Kibo Ngowi, IPS -

If you’ve never seen a landslide before, it’s a terrifying force of nature. Those who have found themselves in the thick of this phenomenon say the earth beneath your feet suddenly begins to give way, the ground cracks open, and large masses of soil, rocks, and debris come crashing down.

India sees hottest, driest August since records began

- Times Report -

India has reported its hottest and driest August since national records began more than a century ago, the latest in a string of records broken worldwide as climate change intensifies. August falls in the middle of India's annual monsoon, a season that usually brings up to 80 percent of the country's

Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire

- Bjorn Lomborg -

One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. But it hasn’t. For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet’s surface. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the

IMF appreciates Dhaka’s plan to address climate change

- Times Report -

Bangladesh is at the forefront of preparing agenda to address climate change and has made significant progress toward combating the natural disaster, observed International Monetary Fund (IMF). "Since 2014, the authorities have put in place a range of climate- related policy tools, notably the Climate Fiscal Framework,” IMF Director for the