Bangladesh’s points to be on agenda of Biden’s Climate Summit: FM
The “Leaders’ Summit on Climate”, set to be held later this week, will largely incorporate the issues raised by Bangladesh on its agenda as the United States is “giving much importance” to Bangladesh as its partner to tackle the climate crisis, says the Foreign Minister.
“They’ve much interest in Bangladesh. They’ve taken a note of key issues that should come up in the Summit agenda,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told during an interaction at his residence.
The US praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and she will be “recognised for Bangladesh’s leadership” of the countries, especially vulnerable to climate impacts, during the Climate Summit.
MONDAY, APRIL 19 MADRID – Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei in Madrid. JAKARTA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to meet his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta for a bilateral meeting. MADRID – Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, in Madrid. TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets with Alok Sharma, president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Tokyo, followed by a meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Alok Sharma – 0530 GMT. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Ministers will be briefed by the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, about recent developments in foreign affairs. The ministers will also discuss developments in Ethiopia and Ukraine, along with a new Czech dispute with Russia – 0730 GMT. LONDON – UK finance minister Rishi Sunak spea
Leaders’ Summit on Climate will largely incorporate issues raised by Bangladesh: Momen
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo UNB, Dhaka UNB, Dhaka
The Leaders Summit on Climate , set to be held later this week, will largely incorporate the issues raised by Bangladesh as the United States is giving increased importance to it as its partner in tackling the climate crisis, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said. They re showing much interest in Bangladesh. They ve taken note of key issues that should come up in the Summit agenda, foreign minister told UNB during an interaction at his residence.
The US praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), and she will be recognised for Bangladesh s leadership , especially for leading climate-vulnerable countries, during the summit.
Most Earth Day events this year will be online because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, 20 million people came out onto the streets across the U.S.
Now, climate change has become one of the central issues of the environmental movement.
Our planet s very own holiday is coming later this week.
And in a year in which a deadly pandemic has had the globe in its grip and climate change helped spark a cascade of calamities from raging wildfires to a ferocious hurricane season, the focus of this year s Earth Day couldn t be more timely.
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Amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow, U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan has discussed with his Russian counterpart bilateral issues, “regional and global matters of concern,” as well as “the prospect of a presidential summit” between the two countries’ presidents.
Sullivan and Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, agreed in their telephone call on April 19 to continue to stay in touch, National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a statement, which came after the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to speak later this week at an online summit on climate change organized by the United States.