UN urged to recognise 1971 genocide in Bangladesh
The United Nations should recognise the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, according to civil society members and cultural activists. They said this on the concluding day of a nine-day-long programme that ended on Monday in Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. Lighting candles, recitation, group dance, video screening and sending a symbolic letter to the UN marked the closing programme that began on September 18 incorporating events in 12 districts and several countries including in Canada, the USA, Australia and a few European states. Amra Ekattor, Prajanma 71, European Bangladesh Foundation and Netherland-based Bangladesh Support Group jointly organised the event. ‘We have been fighting for long demanding that the UN recognise the 1971 genocide. The fight must go on till we achieve the recognition,’ said Amra Ekattor chief coordinator Hilal Fayezi while presiding over the event. Sammilita Sangskritik Jote general secretary Ahkam Ullah said that cultural activists also expressed solidarity with the just cause.
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China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
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China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
Deliver on promises, developing world tells rich at climate talks
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.