China wants to deepen ties with Bangladesh as global geopolitical polarisation is sharpening, and this would be a major objective of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's two-day visit to Bangladesh starting today, say international relations analysts. According to them, China considers Bangladesh a very important South Asian country not only for its growing economy and trade but also for strategic location -- linking South and Southeast Asia and providing a gateway to the Bay of Bengal -- and increasing global standing. These factors also attract the Western world to Bangladesh. Wang Yi, now on a visit to regional countries including Cambodia and Mongolia, will arrive in Dhaka today morning. He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen tomorrow. The Chinese minister is expected to sign and renew a few memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and handover the 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge over the Kocha river in Pirojpur to Bangladesh. The major funding for the bridge came from China as grant, said foreign ministry officials. According to the geopolitical risk analysis site Foreign Brief, expansion of Chinese foreign direct investment under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) may come up, among other issues, during Wang Yi's discussions with Bangladeshi leaders. Most of the funding is likely to flow into transportation infrastructures like ports, bridges and roads.
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.