EnvironmentPrime Minister Tarique Rahman will attend the COP31 World Leaders Summit in Antalya, Turkey, on 11-12 November, where Bangladesh will call for climate finance as grants, not loans, and for accountability from the biggest emitters.
EnvironmentThe National Adaptation Plan puts Bangladesh's needs to 2050 at about $230 billion. In 2026-27, climate-related allocations across 25 ministries total Tk 51,746 crore, and the government's own Climate Change Trust Fund receives just Tk 100 crore.
EnvironmentThe Tropical Forest Forever Facility, launched at COP30 to pay up to $4 a year per hectare of standing tropical forest, has US$7.8 billion pledged by eight countries against a US$125 billion design, and its first payments are not expected before 2028.
EnvironmentAhead of the Antalya summit, CGIAR's Ismahane Elouafi and Todd Rosenstock call for money to follow agrifood's share of emissions and warn that AI could widen gaps for smallholders.
EnvironmentIn its first response to a specific disaster, the UN climate fund has provisionally earmarked money for the August Bhote Koshi floods, less than 0.5% of Nepal's estimated $4.77 billion recovery needs.
EnvironmentAt the Climate and Clean Air Coalition meeting in Bangkok, IRRI said alternate wetting and drying and better residue management exist, but farmers adopt them only when they pay.
OpinionIn a Prothom Alo column, researcher Maha Mirza and women's rights activist Marzia Prova write that 17 million women work in Bangladesh's agriculture against 13 million men, yet rural women producers absorb the first shocks of seed, feed, credit and trade-deal decisions.
OpinionIn a Samakal column, banker and development researcher MM Mahbub Hasan argues that Bangladesh needs a national loss-and-damage database, parametric insurance and disaster clauses in foreign loan agreements to absorb the financial shock of disasters. The views are the writer's own.
EnvironmentA report by the African Tech Futures Lab urges a selective, location-specific approach to carbon dioxide removal in Africa, naming biochar and enhanced rock weathering as low-infrastructure options with possible farm benefits.
OpinionKhulna University economics PhD researcher Rakib Hossain writes that Bangladesh, like Nepal, keeps paying for disasters it did little to cause, and needs grant-based rather than loan-based climate finance.
Environment Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said national climate policy and plans must be turned into coordinated programmes, quality projects, suitable financing and measurable outcomes, because today's development decisions will set climate risk for decades.
EnvironmentClosing the Bay of Bengal Conversation, former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed said his country spends about 30 per cent of national income on adaptation, and that coral and mangrove restoration cost far less than sea walls.
At a pre-COP31 webinar by the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust, the environment ministry and a UNESCO Chair, speakers urged turning climate priorities into investable projects.
