COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma has highlighted the importance of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, saying that it plays a significant role as a carbon sink.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh needs to build embankments with renewable energy facilities along the coastal belt as part of “climate mitigation” to save its people from becoming climate migrants due to the rising sea level.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that Bangladesh expects the UK to promote the interests and priorities of climate vulnerable countries to international platforms.

UK MP and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma will visit Bangladesh as part of his tour to Asia next week to strengthen support for UK COP26 climate priorities ahead of the summit in Glasgow this November.

There’s a 40 percent chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily push past the temperature limit the Paris climate agreement is trying to prevent, meteorologists said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Commonwealth to play a crucial role in eradicating poverty and minimising climate vulnerabilities of the underprivileged segment of the population.

The world’s seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels, to meet globally agreed climate change targets.

Britain said it planned to treble tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of efforts to fight climate change.

Bangladeshi migrants leaving the coast due to rising sea levels could trigger waves of migration across the country that will affect at least 1.3 million people by 2050, according to a new study.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday laid emphasis on the strict implementation of the Paris Agreement, saying it is the only way to check global emissions and thereby global warming.

Bangladesh’s Dr Saleemul Huq, director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and professor of the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) has been named in Reuters Hot List.

Bangladesh has expressed its optimism over both funding and cutting carbon emission as global leaders in the Leaders Summit on Climate yesterday made political commitments to turn the tide of global warming.

The Biden administration today pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target it hopes will spur other big emitter countries to raise their ambition to combat climate change, reports Reuters.

The “Leaders’ Summit on Climate”, set to be held later this week, will largely incorporate the issues raised by Bangladesh as the United States is “giving increased importance” to it as its partner in tackling the climate crisis, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said.

China and the United States agree that stronger pledges to fight climate change should be introduced before a new round of international talks at the end of the year, the two countries said in a joint statement on Sunday.

Bangladesh needs to focus on keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius, climate funding, technology transfer, and rehabilitating the climate migrants, at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate to be held on April 22-23, said leading climate experts and policymakers today.

A group of climate and development activists in Bangladesh called on US President Joe Biden’s administration to take the leadership role in a global transition to a new clean-energy economy.

The World Bank on Friday announced a new Climate Change Action Plan aimed at helping developing countries achieve measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and pledging to mobilize large-scale resources to aid the transition out of coal.

John Kerry, the United States’ special presidential envoy for climate, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on April 9 on a daylong visit during which Bangladesh will convey its priority issues to him on the climate front.

China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more that five years earlier, despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants, according to a global data study.