Bangladesh’s Indo-Pacific Outlook: Tilting, Rebalancing, or Else?
Ever since the United States refocused its strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific region in 2011, the region has increasingly become the global “center of geo-strategic gravity.” Under the umbrella concept of ‘the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS)’, one conceived and floated by the United States, and enshrined under the idea of “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP),” the United States, since then, began to relocate its global strategic resources into the region. Experts even attributed the broader U.S. strategic retraction in the Middle East — the withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years or the contraction of the presence of combat forces in Iraq — to its renewed strategic reorientation to the Asia-Pacific. With the Sino-US ties increasingly becoming more confrontational — one that intensified under the Trump administration and remains persistent in the current one, more U.S. strategic attention has been seen pouring down to this line in response to China’s aggressively growing political, economic, and military assertions in and across the region. The Biden administration has apparently realigned and further consolidated its relations with its allies — that had endured a testing moment during the Trump era.
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.