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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 […]

28
Aug

Nepal’s deadly glacier collapse lays bare global climate injustice

REN Report / 3 months
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9 min read

The Himalayan nation produces a negligible share of global emissions, yet a wall of ice, rock and water has killed hundreds, destroyed communities and exposed the brutal arithmetic of climate injustice. At 8:40 on Wednesday morning, part of a Himalayan mountain appeared to come apart. A lower section of a glacier near Langtang Lirung collapsed […]

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. […]

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 […]

13
Jul

Record monsoon rain exposes gaps in Bangladesh’s landslide defences

Fatema Waz / 4 months
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6 min read

Deadly floods and landslides in the southeast showed that warnings alone cannot protect communities living on unstable slopes, beside blocked drains and in fragile refugee shelters. Record rainfall, deadly landslides and widespread flooding across southeastern Bangladesh have exposed the distance between forecasting a hazard and protecting the people most likely to be hit. Chittagong recorded […]

26
Jun

Bangladesh climate budget jumps 26%, exposing deep local gaps

Md Ibrahim Khalilullah / 5 months
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6 min read

A 25.6 per cent rise takes Bangladesh’s climate allocation to Tk51,746 crore, but experts say weak local targeting, fragmented oversight and a vast financing gap could limit its impact. Bangladesh has raised its climate-related budget by more than a quarter, placing adaptation at the centre of public spending as floods, cyclones, salinity and river erosion […]

21
May

India-Bangladesh Hold Key River Talks Ahead of Ganges Treaty Expiry in 2026

REN Report / 6 months
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4 min read

India and Bangladesh opened a crucial round of river-sharing negotiations in Kolkata on Thursday as both countries prepare for the 2026 expiry of the landmark Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, amid rising concerns over dry-season water shortages, climate stress, and regional water security. The 90th meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), the highest bilateral technical […]