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President Biden s Climate Summit and John Kerry s visit to Dhaka: Daily Star contributor
The writer says that Bangladesh must challenge the US to demonstrate that it recognises that loss is attributable to human-induced climate change and that it believes the victims deserve funds.
US climate envoy John Kerry speaks as Bangladesh s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen watches during a press briefing in Dhaka on April 9, 2021. PHOTO: AFP
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15 Apr in 8:00 Italian Institute for International Political Studies
Climate change is affecting the entire South Caucasus region, which includes vast mountain ecosystems and remote coastal areas. The human security implications of climate change are likely to become more pronounced over time, Nika Chitadze. Director of the Center for International Studies, Professor of the International Black Sea University, writes in his article for
Several recent studies confirm that the average annual air temperature is steadily increasing. For example, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2019 Global Climate Summary, the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.07°C per decade since 1880; however, the average rate of increase since 1981 (0.18°C) is more than twice as great. As a result, extreme weather events such as hurricanes and heat waves have intensified over the past decades. Georgia, Amenia and
As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on
by on 15 April 2021
The United Nations REDD+ program (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) has been operating for more than 13 years as a multipurpose initiative, intended to curb deforestation in tropical nations, sequester forest carbon, combat climate change, protect biodiversity, and aid poor rural communities.
The REDD+ mechanism is largely paid for by wealthy industrialized countries contributing funds to less developed tropical nations, including those in the Amazon, Congo Basin and Indonesia.
Some 600 REDD+ projects have been initiated to date (with some 400 still active), mostly implemented by socioenvironmental NGOs or for-profit project developers, and financed by more than $10 billion in donor funds in more than 65 countries. But evidence of avoided deforestation and reduced carbon emissions is controversial.
Africa’s most diversified manufacturing conglomerate, Dangote Group has revealed that it has suspended exports from its commissioned export terminals.
The Group made this move in an effort to cut the country’s cement supply gap and keep cement prices low in Nigeria.
According to a news report by The Punch, the Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Devakumar Edwin made this revelation while speaking at a press briefing in Lagos this week.
The Director explained that the surge in the demand for cement products has led to a supply gap of about 40% in the country’s cement market, and like every other player the Dangote Group is working actively to close out this gap.
COP26, which was scheduled to take place last year but delayed due to the pandemic, will bring together the signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty agreed in 1994.
Who will be attending?
Every member of the UN is a signatory to the UNFCCC, as well as Palestine, the Cook Islands and Niue. This effectively means that every nation, country or state in the world is involved, making a total of 197 signatory parties.
COP26 will be held in Glasgow and is being coordinated by Conservative MP Alok Sharma who was appointed chair of the conference in February 2020.