Islamabad, Pakistan – The prominent Edhi charity, based in Pakistan, has offered to send ambulances and medical staff to help the Indian government as coronavirus cases continue to spike in the neighbouring country.
Faisal Edhi, the managing trustee of the Edhi Foundation, told Al Jazeera that he had written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
“We sympathise with you greatly and during this strenuous time, we would like to extend our help in the form of a fleet of 50 ambulances along with our services to assist you in addressing, and further circumventing, the current health conditions,” Edhi’s letter reads.
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U.S. President Joe Biden is hosting a two-day climate summit with world leaders on April 22-23, 2021.
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The U.S. will commit to reducing economywide greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 52% from 2005 levels by 2030 as part of its renewed membership in the global Paris Agreement on climate change, senior White House officials announced late April 21.
Biden will formally announce the pledge on April 22 at the start of a two-day White House climate summit attended virtually by dozens of world leaders, including President Xi Jinping of China, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Dhaka optimistic about $100b annual global climate fund: Momen
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DHAKA, April 23, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh is optimism regarding formation of US 100 billion global climate fund for every year as world leaders showed strong ‘political commitment’ at “Leaders’ Summit on Climate” amid the US’s rejoining in the Paris Agreement.
“We are optimistic … to see strong political commitment from the US (regarding $US100 climate fund),” foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today at a press briefing to reveal outcomes of the summit, attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with some 40 heads of state or government virtually on Thursday.
As part of the Paris Agreement pledge, there was a provision of raising $100b per year from 2020 onwards to help the vulnerable countries tackle climate change through mitigation and adaptation but so far, the pledge has failed.
Biden’s remarkable success on climate
By every standard, President Joe Biden’s climate change summit was a remarkable success. With great diplomatic dexterity, Biden and climate envoy John Kerry assembled world leaders representing 82% of world carbon emissions, 73% of the world population and 86% of world economic output to commit to bold climate action.
Biden deftly used the occasion to set the US economy on the path of bold decarbonization by 2030. And all of this was accomplished by videoconference, a daily act for schoolchildren and office workers, yet a much-needed breakthrough for a gathering of world leaders.
The summit represents a tipping point. The world’s largest economies the United States, Canada, the European Union, China, Japan, Korea, India, United Kingdom, Brazil are finally aligning around the goal of deep decarbonization, meaning the shift of the energy system from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) to zero-carbon sources (solar, wind, hydro, ge
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is willing to move forward in its engagement with India, potentially including formal bilateral dialogue on resolving the Kashmir dispute, if its eastern neighbour takes certain specified steps “to ease lives” in Kashmir, senior Pakistani sources have told Al Jazeera.
The Pakistani sources, who have knowledge of the situation and spoke to Al Jazeera, shared for the first time a list of “examples” of actions that the Indian government could take in Indian-administered Kashmir to move the talks closer to a formal bilateral dialogue.
Ties between the two nuclear-armed countries have been virtually frozen since February 2019, after a military standoff sparked by an armed group attack on Indian security forces in Kashmir.