Are the Rohingya a forgotten lot?
The more than a million Rohingya forcibly displaced from their homeland and now living in the cramped camps in Cox's Bazar have found no solace from the words of the head of the UN Refugee Agency, Filippo Grandi, who recently visited Bangladesh. Despite his call to the world community to continue helping the refugees from Rakhine, the fact remains that the Ukraine war has changed global priorities altogether. It is the Ukrainian refugees in Europe who are now getting all the attention. This is bad news not only for the Rohingya, but also for Bangladesh. For it is about five years that Bangladesh has been hosting these people who fled their homeland in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Bangladesh has been highly praised all along by the world community for its generosity. Even the UNHCR chief has been no exception. But given the crises ranging from demographic to climatic to economic ones that the country has been grappling with, housing and maintaining of the Rohingya are getting too burdensome for it with the passage of time. And it cannot also be expected that Bangladesh would continue to bear this burden indefinitely. To be exact, it is not since September, 2017 that Bangladesh has been faced with this crisis. In fact, it started long before the fresh waves of Rohingya began to cross the Naf river between Bangladesh and Myanmar and enter the country.
Following denial of the Rohingya their citizenship rights by the Myanmar's military government in 1982, these people became stateless in their own homeland. And the intensity of oppression on and persecution of these people only increased under the international community's watch. Thus emboldened the Myanmar government began a systematic campaign to drive the entire Rohingya population out of the country's Rakhine state. In consequence, some 250,000 Rohingya, who were then forced out of their country, sought refuge in Bangladesh. The world powers did little to stop Myanmar government from violating the basic human rights of these people in such a wholesale manner. They were left , as if, to the generosity of neighbouring Bangladesh for food, shelter and other basic human needs.
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.