Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the world major economies should exercise honesty about climate change to avoid impending crisis.
“We expect the world’s major economies to remain honest about climate change and do their fair share to avert the impending crisis," she said.
The prime minister made the remarks in a high-level thematic session of Climate Ambition Summit on “Delivering Climate Justice: Accelerating Ambition and Implementation on Adaptation and Early Warnings for All” at ECOSOC Chamber in New York.
She arrived in New York on September 17 to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
The premier said Bangladesh’s experience demonstrated that investing in adaptation and early warning makes perfect sense.
"We hope our development partners will seize these opportunities to deliver climate justice," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh has joined this session to lend support to two initiatives by the UN secretary general.
As a climate justice advocate, she said Bangladesh stands ready to align with any constructive move that advances the agenda.
The prime minister said that Bangladesh has requested the UN system to conduct a table-top exercise on nation-wide earthquake modelling.
She said they are working on Bangladesh's second satellite, Bangabandhu II, as an Earth Observatory.
"Bangladesh is willing to share its expertise with other vulnerable countries through South-South and triangular cooperation," she said.
She also expressed her hope that “early warnings for all” will be able to encourage MDBs and IFIs to join such efforts.
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.