Bangladesh - Renew Earth News

01
Nov

COP17 ends with new biodiversity roadmap, but funding gap threatens 2030 targets

REN Report / 2 weeks
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7 min read

Nearly 50 decisions and $2 billion in announced funding mark progress at the UN biodiversity summit in Armenia, but inadequate finance, weak action on harmful subsidies and limited corporate contributions leave global nature goals at risk. The world has just four years left to reverse biodiversity loss, but governments are still struggling to find the […]

25
Oct

COP17 adopts 14 decisions as biodiversity finance disputes remain unresolved

REN Report / 3 weeks
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6 min read

Negotiators make progress on biosafety, gender equality and invasive species, but funding shortages, Indigenous rights and weak progress towards 2030 nature targets continue to challenge the UN biodiversity summit in Armenia. Governments at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP17) in Armenia have adopted 14 decisions during the first five days of negotiations, marking early progress […]

19
Oct

COP17 opens in Armenia as UN warns global biodiversity targets are off track

REN Report / 4 weeks
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5 min read

World leaders face growing pressure to close a multibillion-dollar conservation funding gap, reform harmful subsidies and accelerate action to protect nature, as a new $500 million species recovery pledge offers hope ahead of crucial negotiations. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP17) opens in Yerevan, Armenia, on Monday amid mounting warnings that global efforts to halt […]

09
Oct

Bangladesh’s AI climate adaptation tool among five finalists for UN Climate Action Award 2026

REN Report / 1 month
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6 min read

The Bangladesh-developed Climate Action Copilot aims to help governments identify vulnerable communities and prioritize climate adaptation investments. The winner will be announced in Cambodia on October 14. A Bangladesh-developed artificial intelligence solution designed to help governments identify climate-vulnerable communities and make better-informed adaptation investments has been selected among five global finalists for the 2026 UN […]

06
Oct

Bangladesh’s green finance surges, but renewables get just 7.8%

Md Ibrahim Khalilullah / 1 month
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7 min read

Energy-efficiency projects hold more than five times as much outstanding green finance as renewable energy, exposing a widening mismatch between Bangladesh’s banking system and its clean-power ambitions. Bangladesh’s banks and finance companies have built a green-finance portfolio worth more than Tk 77,000 crore, but only a small fraction of that money is financing renewable energy, […]

25
Sep

More Than Half of Bangladesh’s Climate-Tagged Project Budget Cannot Be Mapped to Districts

Md Ibrahim Khalilullah / 2 months
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8 min read

Data analysis of Bangladesh’s FY2026-27 climate budget suggests several highly vulnerable districts receive far less visible funding than their population-and-climate-risk share, while a lack of geographic disclosure makes it impossible to fully judge whether climate money is reaching those who need it most. On the bank of the Meghna River in Hijla, Barishal, 65-year-old Meher […]

25
Aug

Saline drinking water puts one in five coastal Bangladeshis over 40 at elevated risk of heart disease, study finds

REN Report / 3 months
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3 min read

In the salinity-affected coastal upazilas of Koyra in Khulna and Assasuni in Satkhira, the water residents drink may be quietly elevating their risk of cardiovascular disease. Preliminary findings from a multi-year study show that one in five people aged 40 and older in these areas now faces a moderate-to-high risk of heart disease, underscoring how […]

23
Aug

A seat at the climate table needs rules, not connections

Jubayer Islam / 3 months
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8 min read

Bangladesh can make youth participation in climate diplomacy credible by combining technical skill, lived experience and transparent public selection. As Bangladesh prepares its national position for COP31 in Antalya, to be held from 9 to 20 November 2026, the environment ministry has reportedly invited youth-organisation representatives into the drafting process. That is a welcome change. […]

20
Aug

Bangladesh’s agrivoltaic pilot tests whether solar farms can grow food

Md Ibrahim Khalilullah / 3 months
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6 min read

A 49.6-kilowatt pilot in Chuadanga will measure whether crops and grid-connected solar can share scarce land, offering evidence for energy policy, farm incomes and food security. Bangladesh has inaugurated its first scientifically structured, grid-connected agrivoltaics pilot, placing solar panels and crops on the same land in an effort to expand renewable energy without displacing food […]

12
Aug

Extreme heat strips Bangladeshi workers of wages, health and security

Fatema Waz / 3 months
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6 min read

Two studies show extreme heat cutting workdays and incomes while raising medical costs, leaving informal workers trapped between unsafe labour, overheated homes and weak social protection. Extreme heat could cost Bangladesh’s agriculture and construction workers almost 24 working days a year by 2030, while a separate Dhaka survey suggests many labourers are already losing weeks […]