Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, "Bangladesh is now considered a living laboratory of locally led climate adaptation". But this remarkable achievement did not appear overnight rather it took a well thought out meticulous planning in combination with prudent leadership bold enough to carry out projects in self funding. She was speaking at the...
Hiren Pandit: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been honored with the 'Climate Mobility Champion Leader Award' in recognition of her global contribution as a voice of leadership in climate action and on behalf of people at risk of climate change. The award was presented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN-backed Glob...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for international support for countries affected by climate displacement. "Most climate displacements take place within national borders and across borders in some dire situations. The worst-affected countries need international support and solidarity to prevent such situations from turning into a humanit...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the world's major economies should exercise honesty about climate change to avoid an impending crisis. "We expect the world's major economies to remain honest about climate change and do their fair share to avert the impending crisis," she said. The prime minister made the remarks in a" High-Level T...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid emphasis on strengthening global solidarity and adopting coordinated response to address crisis as she placed four recommendations in this regard joining the G20 Summit here. "Here G20 and international financial institutions have crucial role to play, and Bangladesh is ready to support their efforts for ...
Bangladesh has been named among the first recipients of Global Shield’s financial support to address the climate risks in the country, according to a joint press release of V20, The Vulnerable Twenty Group, G7, and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Initial contributions include around 170 million euros from...
Bangladesh and Denmark today signed a Framework Document on Sustainable and Green Engagement as the two countries shared joint commitment in tackling global challenges like climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen and Danish Minister for Development and Cooperation Flem...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged UNESCO to put more emphasis on climate-related topics in education programmes in the wake of global warming. She also called for more technical support from the agency of the United Nations to raise awareness about the challenges created by climate change. “Climate change is a life-threatening reali...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the five influential dealmakers at COP26 being held at Glasgow, according to a BBC report that described the Bangladesh leader as “voice of the vulnerable”. The four other influential dealmakers who will have a major impact on the summit's success or failure are China's climate n...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised the dangers facing climate-vulnerable countries due to the failure of the world's major carbon polluters to uphold their pledge to mitigate the damage. The Bangladesh leader made the remarks while presiding over a dialogue with leaders of the 48 member states of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) in G...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the developed countries to set ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions and implement plans to stop the warming of the planet. Countries are obliged to submit Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the agreement signed in the 20...
The greatest Bengali, who led the nation for freedom from the thousand-years-chain of subordination, was none but Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He finally declared independence on March 26 in 1971, following the two-long decades of struggles for freedom. The Bengali nation leapt into the war at the risk of their lives. The whole 55,000 squa...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought global leaders' bolder steps over the climate change crisis amid speculations about particularly US pledges towards the issue in the 76th UN General Assembly (UNGA) debate. In a closed-door meeting of world leaders ahead of the weeklong UNGA debate, the Bangladesh premier renewed her call for strict ...
Md. Arif Hossain: As the world watches preparations for COP26 in Glasgow on climate change, Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s stewardship has been taking an important leadership role on behalf of a coalition of vulnerable frontline developing nations. Prime Minister Hasina currently chairs the Climate Vulnerable For...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the major world economies to work with all the stakeholders in partnership to ensure a sustainable future for the next generation. "Major economies have to work with all stakeholders globally in partnership for ensuring a sustainable future for the next generation," she said. The Prime Minister, in a pre-...
Developed countries should draw an immediate action plan to reduce their carbon emissions and keep the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. The developing nations should also focus on mitigation measures, Hasina said in her address to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, hosted by US President...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh firmly believes that coronavirus vaccines should be declared "global public goods", and called for a strong partnership to tackle challenges posed by the pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic, she noted, has brought mankind at a crossroad of history, confronting possibly the gravest global challen...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government wants to develop the country and for that reason, it needs more energy. "We want the development of our country. That's why we need energy," she said when Special US Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry called on her at her the Gono Bhaban. PM's press secretary Ihsanul Karim later briefed r...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for ensuring 100 billion US dollars a year for developing countries to save them from climate change impacts as she placed a four-point proposal including “establishing climate justice” at a virtual “Climate Vulnerable Leaders’ Event”. She also informed that her government ...
Bangladesh is building world's largest housing project for climate refugees in Cox's Bazar. Under the 'Sheikh Hasina Ashrayan Project', one of the ten fast track mega projects, 4,409 families will get a 456.07 sq ft flat in exchange of only Taka 1001. On 23rd July, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the flat handover ceremony through ...
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