PM to address climate summit today seeking $100b annual fund
PM to address climate summit today seeking $100b annual fund
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address virtually at the US’s climate summit tonight urging formation of a US$ 100 billion annual global climate fund and seeking support for Bangladesh in expanding its renewable energy sector.
“Our honorable Prime Minister will urge the industrial nations to come forward with 100 billion dollars a year for global climate fund as promised in Paris Agreement,” foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told BSS ahead of the high-level two-day “Leaders Summit on Climate”, convened by US President Joe Biden.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said this open line of communication operating alongside the trans-Tasman bubble will make the any potential disruptions or suspensions “a little more predictable”. “I expect that now that we’ve got much greater movement of people across the Tasman, things will be a little more predictable. We will be keeping in regular contact, so I don’t intend to surprise Australia at any point and I don’t expect that they’ll be aiming to surprise us. “I think that we’ll be in regular contact.”
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Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt are in regular contact.
SYDNEY (The Straits Times/ANN): On Monday morning (April 19), Christina Cassin arrived in Melbourne from Wellington after taking advantage of a newly opened quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.
Her Australian counterpart Scott Morrison said he had no intention of changing the policy, and insisted it was not directed to any one country or any one nationality whatsoever .
The issue heated up last month when Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton described a planeload of deportees to New Zealand as trash .
The Foreign Affairs Minister was less outspoken during her press conference with Payne in Wellington on Thursday, but she didn t back down. We ve certainly moved on beyond those particular comments and the things that needed to be said were said at the time in relation to the statements made, she said of Dutton s remarks.
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Australia is generally considered a climate laggard.PHOTO: REUTERS
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