Every stakeholder’s involvement is essential to reducing the impact of climate change in Bangladesh, said speakers at an event on Wednesday. They stressed the need to focus on climate change awareness, adaptation, and action immediately or risk the effects of climate change becoming irreversible. HSBC Bangladesh organised the event, titled “Together for Climate,” with support from DNCC on Wednesday to discuss individual and corporate responsibility with regard to the environment. Participants included representatives of start-ups, students, corporates, regulators, and policy makers, among others. They all shared their innovative new climate solutions and success stories. Md Atiqul Islam, mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation and member of the Mayors Migration Council (MMC), attended the program as chief guest. British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh ITO Naoki, Bangladesh Bank Sustainable Finance Department Director Khondkar Morshed Millat, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) President Md Jashim Uddin, HSBC Bangladesh CEO Md Mahbub ur Rahman, Brac Bangladesh Executive Director Asif Saleh, Unilever Bangladesh CEO and Managing Director Zaved Akhtar, Garbageman Founder and CEO Fahim Uddin Shuvo, and members of the Mayors Migration Council were among the participants.
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.