Bangladesh suffers a loss of 2.0 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) every year due to this adverse impact of the changing climate, he adds. "In addition, we spent nearly 5.0-billion extra dollars each year on fighting the challenges of climate change," Dr Momen says while addressing a dialogue on 'Human mobility in the context of climate change'. Foreign ministry and the International Organi-sation of Migration (IOM) co-hosted the event. Despite being one of the world's lowest carbon emitters, Bangladesh becomes one of the most sufferers, he says, urging the international community to take immediate measures to address the problems. Currently, nearly 650,000 people of Bangladesh are uprooted from their homes each year due to river erosion, cyclone, flood, drought and salinity. Listing repercussions of climate impacts, Dr Momen says climate-induced forced migration will create global security problem and spending billions of dollars on defence be useless in the near future. Such migration can pose a serious security challenge with spillover effects beyond borders, he adds. The minister urges the world community to spend 10 per cent of the $2300-billion global defence expenditure to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. He says Bangladesh will continue to play a pioneering role in sensitising people to climate impacts and help the world understand the scope, human mobility and adaptive mechanism in the face of climate change. "We shall continue to remain active within different models for disaster displacement, the dynamics of cross-border displacement due to climate change," he adds.
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.