Coordinated efforts essential for preventing climate change hazards: Environmentalists
Experts have expressed fear that without a coordinated effort to prevent humanitarian crises caused by climate change in the country's southwest coastal region, the area will become uninhabitable in the near future. "From 1991 to 2020, Bangladesh has faced 197 major disasters due to climate change, which has created other crises in the livelihood, resources, food, water, and shelter of the people of this country," said Mohon Kumar Mondal, executive director of Local Environment Development and Agricultural Research Society (Ledars) at a programme yesterday. The adverse effects of climate change are more severe in the southwest coastal region. Salinity in the coastal region has increased by 26% over the past 35 years, which has put the people of this region at health risk, said Mohon Kumar Mondal at the dialogue titled "Climate Crisis-Poverty-Disaster: Integrated initiative needed to prevent humanitarian crisis in southwest coastal region," organised by Sundarbans and Coast Protection Movement in the capital.
India targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, says Modi
India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster has announced at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The target date is two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India is the last of the world’s major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the United States and the European Union aiming for 2050.
COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh
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.
Why China's climate policy matters to us all
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.