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Some 19% of food produced around the world ended up as waste in 2022, equivalent to around 1.05 billion metric tonnes of food, according to a new study by the United Nations, report agencies. In the Food Waste Index Report published on Wednesday, the UN said households and businesses binned more than one trillion dollars’ worth of food at a time when more than 780 million people were going hungry.... »

Over 272,000 premature deaths occur in Bangladesh per year due to air pollution, unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene, and lead exposure, says a new report of the World Bank. The report titled ‘Building Back a Greener Bangladesh: Country Environmental Analysis 2023’ was revealed at a city hotel here in presence of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury. The Bangladesh Country Environmental Analysis finds air pollution, unsafe... »

Announcing a joint statement on Saturday at the National Press Club, Dhaka, Prof Jasim Uddin Ahmed, President of the International Farakka Committee, Bangladesh said that the 54 common rivers shared among the countries could be sustainably developed only on the basis of a basinwide agreement. The press briefing was also addressed by Mostafa Kamal Majumder, convener, IFC, Sirajuddin Sathi, writer and researcher, Tamijuddin Ahmed, Dr. Nazma Ahmad, vice president of... »

The Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury said the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and the United State will be stronger in the coming days based on the environment and climate actions. These are priority areas for the United States, so the United States wants to cooperate with us in programs to combat climate change. Environment Minister said this to media after Afreen Akhter, the Deputy Assistant... »

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury today stressed the need for identifying the deforestation rate in Bangladesh, urging authorities concerned to ensure optimum utilisation of allocations in forest conservation. “There is no proper and up-to-date statistics on deforestation ratio but this is happening in Bangladesh. So, we have to know the deforestation rate,” he told the inauguration of the Second National Forest Inventory of Bangladesh at Hotel... »

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Environment and Climate Change and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry Saber Hossain Chowdhury today said Bangladesh will take steps to get quickly an effective loss and damage fund operationalized in COP-28. “For this, the capacity building activities of the concerned officials of Bangladesh will be undertaken soon,” he told a workshop on ’28th UN Climate Conference... »

This year is “virtually certain” to be the warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last month was the world’s hottest October in that period. Last month smashed through the previous October temperature record, from 2019, by a massive margin, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. “The record was broken by 0.4°C, which is a huge margin,” said C3S Deputy Director Samantha... »

ABU DHABI, Oct 31, 2023 (BSS/AFP) – Setting up a “loss and damage” fund for poorer nations hit by climate change dominated preliminary talks on Tuesday one month before COP28 in Dubai, where delegates look set to tussle over the future of fossil fuels. Around 70 ministers have gathered since Monday at the Emirates Palace, a luxurious resort in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, to hammer out details... »

DHAKA, Oct 12, 2023 (BSS) – Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today said the members of parliament of Bangladesh and India can work together to tackle the adverse effects of climate change as socio-economic and political conditions of the both countries are similar. “Socio-economic and political conditions of Bangladesh and India are similar. The parliamentarians of the both countries can work together to deal such kinds of... »

Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 and drop sharply thereafter if humanity is to cap global warming in line with Paris Agreement targets, said a UN report Friday that will underpin key COP28 climate talks. Emissions have already peaked in developed and a few developing countries, but are continuing to rise in many of the world’s largest economies, according to the UN’s first Global Stocktake of progress in... »