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Fairness of climate fund in climate change summit

Mohammad Saiful Islam

UNFCCC announced that it will give $10 billion at every year until 2012 to the damaged countries of climate change at December 6, 2009 (Before the day of starting Cop-15 conference). This amount will be increased to $100 billion in 2020.20% of this fund will be given on cash. Rest of the money will be given as investment and technological assistance.

But, according to Kyoto agreement, industrial countries will give 1.4% of their total growth every year to the damaged rich countries. According to this, assistance of $1200 billion should be given. But USA and Denmark have given assistance of almost $1 billion to Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives. No more country has given any assistance yet according to Kyoto protocol.  Read more...

Dhaka to raise S Asia’s suffering at Copenhagen climate meet: Hasina

Thimpu, Bhutan: Bangladesh will prominently raise the issue of suffering of South Asian countries including Bangladesh caused by global warming in the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Meet.

The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, said this when she had an audience with former king of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuk at his palace in Thimpu Sunday morning on the third day of her four-day official visit to the Himalayan state.

‘Bangladesh and many other South Asian countries are badly affected due to  Read more...

Climate change talks on knife-edge

More than 190 countries are trying to thrash out the details of a new deal on global warming to be decided in Copenhagen in December, reports Telegraph.co.uk on Thursday.

But already the African nations have walked out of the latest round of UN talks in Barcelona and are threatening to do so again unless the rich nations commit to cutting carbon.

It is the latest blow to any international climate change deal, which is now looking  Read more...

Free trade, climate change to top India-EU summit

New Delhi: India and the European Union will focus on pushing for a free trade pact and narrowing differences over climate change at their annual summit this week, a European diplomat said Wednesday.

The two sides have held seven rounds of talks since 2007, and Daniele Smadja, the EU’s ambassador to India, said the leaders must now ‘bring political momentum into the discussions.’

Among the hurdles faced by the planned pact are intellectual property rights disputes, high Indian taxes on wines and spirits from Europe, and EU concerns over child labour in India.

‘We have to get into exchange of concessions, and these are difficult and need time,’ Smadja said.

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden, which holds the rotating EU presidency, EU Commissioner for External  Read more...

Bangladesh should assume moral leadership in Copenhagen: French DPM

Dhaka: Bangladesh should assume moral leadership in the Copenhagen climate conference in December, visiting French deputy Prime Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told reporters on Thursday.

The voice of Bangladesh can sway decisions as it would come from a country that grapples with all kinds of difficulties and hardships, he said after a lunch hosted by foreign minister Dipu Moni at the state guest house Padma.

Borloo, who is also the minister for ecology, energy, sustainable development and land planning, arrived in Dhaka Thursday morning on a day-long tour to  Read more...