Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Climate change clouds hover over Pakistan
Participants in a seminar on the World Environment Day said signs of climate change had begun to look ominous for Pakistan.
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Climate change talks: Dhaka for action plan of LDCs to face impact
Bangladesh has called upon the global community to support climate change strategies and adapt action plans of the least developed countries (LDCs) for facing the ever increasing adverse impacts of global warming and sea-rise.
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U.S. House Puts Climate Bill On Quick Pace For Passage
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have put major environmental legislation on a fast-track, boosting chances a climate change bill will pass this month or next, leading lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Climate Change Threatens African Farmland: Study
Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental Science and Policy.
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Small Islands Win UN Vote On Climate Change Security
Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations on Wednesday with the passage of a resolution recognizing climate change as a possible threat to security.
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Mexico Sees Support For U.N. Climate Finance Plan
A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new U.N. treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, a Mexican official said on Wednesday.
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'Environmental degradation likely to cause Rs 365 billion loss a year'
The environmental degradation is estimated to cause Pakistan economic losses to the tune of Rs 365 billion per year that amounted to six percent of the GDP, said Afsarullah Khan Wazir, Project Director Pakistan Forest Institute (PFI) Peshawar.
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Carbon Storage Faces Costly Hurdles
The CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said on Tuesday that the pipeline giant will not enter the market to sock away heat-trapping greenhouse gases in underground reservoirs unless the U.S. government settles who is legally liable if the gas leaks out.
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U.N. climate talks grudgingly accept treaty draft
Rich and poor countries criticized a first draft text of a new United Nations climate treaty Monday but grudgingly accepted it as the basis for six months of arduous negotiations.
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Master plan to increase forest coverage up to 20pc soon: PM
The government is going to prepare a master plan to increase the country's forest coverage up to 20 percent in next six years, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday while inaugurating the three-month countrywide 'National Afforestation Movement'.