Ample avenues of opportunities for Bangladesh, Maldives
Rajib Kanti Roy
11th February, 2021 11:53:21
The relations between Bangladesh and the Maldives have never seen any vicissitude since the inception. Both the countries have stood together in difficult times and supported each other in international forums. Gradually, the cooperation between the two countries has deepened and their relations are heading towards a new era.
Since the beginning of the Bangladesh-Maldives diplomatic relationship in 1978, both the countries have been sharing warm and friendly ties. These relations are based on goodwill, understanding and reciprocal cooperation.
Bangladesh stands by the Maldives every time it faces a crisis and the island country always expresses its gratitude in return.
Kerry was among world leaders who converged virtually on the Netherlands for the summit seeking to galvanize more action and funding to adapt the planet and vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change.
“We saw the heat waves. We saw the fires. We saw the (melting) Arctic,” top NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt said earlier this month about the effects of the warming. Adaptation is not an option, it is an urgent task for this generation and those to come,” Chile President Sebastián Piñera said in a video message.
The Netherlands-based Global Center on Adaptation last week called on governments and financers around the globe to include funding for adaptation projects in their COVID-19 recovery spending.
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Foreword
The COVID-19 crisis is a warning to us all: we must heal nature in order to heal ourselves. As governments around the world prepare massive stimulus packages to repair the damage of COVID-19 shutdowns, they should be harnessing this opportunity to build stronger, more resilient societies. To carry on as before would be a colossal and costly mistake. We are at a critical juncture. We can continue operating within a fundamental untenable and unequal system or we can seize this moment to transform it.
We can no longer ignore the fact that when disasters strike, it’s the most vulnerable who are worst affected, time after time. Just as the world disregarded COVID-19 when it seemed a distant problem, so our climate apartheid, in which the wealthy pay to escape from the worst impacts of climate change, while the poor are left to suffer, will only become bleaker if we continue to turn a blind eye to the effects of climate
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Cities across the world have pledged to adopt principles and make âsmart investmentsâ to ensure their pandemic recovery plans also bolster climate resilience.
At the two-day virtual Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 yesterday, the mayors of Miami, Paris, and Rotterdam joined the World Resources Institute (WRI), the Global Center on Adaptation, and more than three dozen other cities, governments, and NGOs to launch the new 1000 Cities Act Now initiative.
Mangrove restoration leads to greater resilience in Bangladesh: report
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human-made solutions to deal with climate change impacts, a mangrove
reforestation project helps strengthen resilient to climate change in
Bangladesh, according to a global report.
The State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2020, released recently for the
first time by the Global Center on Adaptation, says protecting and restoring
green ecosystems, such as forests and wetlands, can harness the power of
nature to complement gray infrastructure, such as dams and seawalls.
“Green measures often have lower costs than human-made solutions,” the
report revealed, mentioning that one example in Bangladesh involves
reforesting coastal greenbelts while developing floating vegetable farms and