ACT2025 Official Side Event ‘Beyond dialogue to Action & Support to avert, minimize and address loss and damage’ today, 10th November from 16.45 – 18.15 (EGY | GMT+2) at Room Amon (150), Blue Zone. With loss and damage being a major agenda in the UNFCCC negotiations and beyond, the Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) consortium aims to bring together negotiators and L&D actors from countries which have …

Launch of the new Loss & Damage Research project titled: ‘Strengthening Loss & Damage Research Capacity in Global South (STRENGTH)’ today, 9th November from 13:30-15:00 PM (GMT+2) at the Bangladesh Pavilion (Blue Zone). This session will bring together a high level panel of policymakers and government officials from the 4 main country partners (Bangladesh, Rwanda, Nepal and Vanuatu) to discuss …

With the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as 27th Conference of Parties (COP27), set to begin in Egypt next week, it is important to look back on the progress that has been made around the world, by government and private actors, civil society, youth and the media. Much of the pledges of actions to tackle climate change …

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is set to take place in Egypt this November. But many of the decisions taken in previous sessions of the COP still remain unimplemented. So what can we expect from COP27?   Dr Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), …

The idea of establishing an implementation arm of Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM), was put forward by the Least Developing Countries (LDCs) at COP25, held in Madrid in 2019. It was quickly accepted by other groups like AOSIS, AGN and AILAC. Hence, G-77 and China moved with the common position to negotiate with the developed country Parties. However, due to the consensus among …

The global environmental movement started in 1972, with the first global environment conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, hosted by then Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Among the heads of governments who also attended was the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who famously declared that environment and poverty were two major global issues that needed to be tackled together. Since …

Watch the webinar  “Building on the outcomes of COP26: Priority Climate Actions Ahead of COP27” Hosted by UNB Originally this webinar recordings published on United News of Bangladesh Event Page.

Event recording in English   Implementing and sustaining nature investments at scale The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II report, focused on climate impacts and vulnerability, will reconfirm that even if countries make critical emission cuts, the economic and social costs of climate impacts are already severe and destined to get worse. While adaptation remains essential and …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global body under the United Nations (UN), has been conducting periodic reviews (every six or seven years) of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change for the last 30 years. The agency is currently in the process of publishing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in three parts. The first part was …

One of the positive outcomes of the COP26 held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 was a universal acknowledgement of the failure of developed countries to deliver climate finance to developing countries, and even of developing countries themselves to actually deliver to the most vulnerable communities within their own territories. While it is good that countries acknowledged their failure and …