Bangladesh prefers to steer its own course in the Indo-Pacific with homespun strategies to remain non-aligned with any alignment over the potential zone. The decision to pursue its own Indo-Pacific strategies comes amid reported hectic lobbying from the US and its allies to be part of their Indo-Pacific grouping and China's simultaneous request for Dhaka not to fall into any such orbit. China has been vocal against the IPS since its inception as they see it as a mechanism by the US and its allies to corner themselves in their own turf. "We are preparing some elements so that we can also devise our own strategy on what kind of Bay of Bengal we want to see. So it's not that we are joining some alliance or not," Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen told the FE Wednesday when asked whether Bangladesh has made any decision to join in the US-led alliance. "It's not that they have invited us or we are not accepting their invitation. The matter is not like that," the senior secretary said. "Indo-Pacific Strategy is conceived by the US. Similarly Canada has its own strategy on Indo-Pacific. European Union and Japan have also their own strategies on the Indo-Pacific," he said about what is seen as geopolitical 'big-power game'.
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.
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.
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.
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.