Bangladesh moves to plug multi-billion-dollar climate finance gap

Bangladesh has begun developing its first comprehensive national climate finance strategy in a bid to mobilise billions of dollars needed to tackle escalating climate threats, officials said, as the country grapples with rising costs of adaptation and disaster resilience. The initiative comes as Bangladesh faces intensifying climate impacts, from stronger cyclones to creeping salinity, while […]

COP29: A Failure of Funding!

Baku, Azerbaijan “Is it a joke?“ This is how Harjeet Singh, Climate Activist and Global Engagement Director for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, reacted to the latest draft of the new Climate Finance Goal in COP 29. Mr. Singh expressed extreme disappointment and said, “It is a disgrace that despite full awareness of the […]