Climate Emergency
Climate EmergencyPrince William joins father in calling for climate action
Britain's Prince William on Thursday praised his father Charles for being "well ahead of the curve" on climate change, as the pair ramped up pressure ahead of the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow.
World's clean energy transition 'too slow': IEA
The global transition to clean energy is still far too slow to meet climate pledges and risks fuelling even greater price volatility, the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday.
Bangladesh knows how to address climate change challenges: EU envoy
Bangladesh has a wealth of ideas on how to address the challenges of climate change both at home and in the wider world. The word of praise has come from the head of the Delegation of European Union ...
Google to demonetise YouTube videos on climate misinformation
Amid an increasing pressure to tackle misinformation on climate change on the world’s largest video platform- YouTube, the parent company Google has announced that it will start demonetising content ...
Facebook bans sales of Amazon conservation areas on its apps
Facebook on Friday said it will stop allowing the sale of land in Amazon rainforest conservation areas at marketplaces on the social network or its Instagram and WhatsApp services
Climate change set to worsen resource degradation, conflict: Report
Food insecurity, lack of water and the impact of natural disasters, combined with high population growth, are stoking conflict and displacing people in vulnerable areas
Global warming kills 14pc of world’s corals in a decade
Dynamite fishing and pollution—but mostly global warming—wiped out 14 per cent of the world’s coral reefs from 2009 to 2018, leaving graveyards of bleached skeletons where vibrant ecosystems once ...
For Bangladesh’s climate migrants, pandemic job cuts fuel ‘multiple crises’
Bangladesh is one of the world’s largest exporters of labour, with nearly 700,000 people getting jobs abroad annually prior to the pandemic
Children face more heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires than grandparents
For the most vulnerable children, the impacts of climate change can disrupt access to health care and education, as is the case for girls affected by gender inequalities, displaced or refugee ...
UNGA address
PM Hasina demands ‘universal, affordable’ vaccine access to all
Sheikh Hasina expressed her grave concern over growing trend of “vaccine divides” pointing out World Bank reports suggesting high and upper middle-income countries received so far 84 per cent of ...
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