Bangladesh has demanded immediate implementation of Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) as adaptation for Bangladesh as a climate change victim is urgent priority.
"We want to see immediate implementation of CAF because adaptation is an urgent priority for as a climate change victim like Bangladesh," said Shafiqur Rahman Patwary, head of Bangladesh delegation to Warsaw Climate Change Conference 2013 being held at Warsaw in Poland.
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Bangladesh has urged the development partners to stand beside it to cope with the adverse effects of climate change.
The call was made on the sidelines of an event, titled ‘Climate Initiatives of Bangladesh: Sharing the Experience of Finance, Adaptation and Mitigation’ organised by Bangladesh at Warsaw Stadium in Poland on the 8th day of Warsaw Climate Change Summit 2013 on Monday.
At the event, it was said Bangladesh requires US$ 10 billions to deal with the negative impacts due to climate change which...
Greenpeace has often been critical of big data-center operators like Facebook for their impact on the environment, but on Wednesday it said some online firms are improving their practices and may even be the vanguard for renewable energy use.
Facebook, Google, Apple and some other tech firms have been investing heavily in renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro and solar. While cautioning that they have more work to do, Greenpeace said the companies are showing how big organizations can use their buying power to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
"The changes I'm seeing from the companies in the room here are giving me big hope," said Gary Cook, a senior IT policy analyst at Greenpeace, at an event in San Francisco attended by Facebook, Google, Rackspace, Yahoo and other comp...
Speakers at a workshop have stressed for joint efforts of the government and non-government organisations to eliminate hazardous child labour for ensuring universal rights for all children.
They also favoured providing necessary assistance to the working children in hotels, restaurants, welding workshops and other hazardous places to pave way for their normal growth and flourishing talents to uphold their human and social rights, reports BSS.
‘Come to Work’, an NGO, organised the daylong workshop with the assistances of ‘Oporajeyo Bangladesh’ and Eco Social Development Organisation (ESDO) at Young Star Club in Parbotipur upazila town of Dinajpur on Tuesday.
Hurricane? cyclone? typhoon? They’re all the same, officially tropical cyclones.But they just use distinctive terms for a storm in different parts of the world.
Hurricane is used in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, central and northeast Pacific. They are typhoons in the northwest Pacific. In the Bay of Bengal and the Arabia Sea, they are called cyclones.
Tropical cyclone is used in the southwest India Ocean; in the southwestern Pacific and southeastern India Ocean they are severe tropical cyclones. Strength: A storm gets a nam...
Nowadays air and water pollutions have turned as a major health concern. Air is mainly polluted by emissions from brick fields, exhaust of vehicles, industrial discharges and burning of fossil fuel.
According to experts, pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. The six common and hazardous air pollutants consist of particulate matter, ground level ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur-oxides and lead, of which, particle pollution and ground level ozone are the most widespread health hazards, reports BSS.
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