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Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan. Sketch: TBS

Rizwana for cutting fossil fuel use to address climate change

She also stresses the need to reduce its use, adapting development models and working collectively to control pollution

Photo: Courtesy

Experts call for clear definition of climate finance ahead of COP29

A person walks through the Valle del Pacifico event center, ahead of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Cali, Colombia October 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Juan David Duque/File Photo

UN nature talks debate rules for genetic information. What does that mean?

Dutch Ambassador in Dhaka Irma van Dueren meets Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan at Secretariat on 22 October 2024. Photo: PID

Netherlands keen to help Bangladesh improve water resources management: Envoy

China's Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu shakes hands with Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad during the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

Leaders urge world to pay up to save nature as COP16 talks open

Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad and other participants attend the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

What's on the agenda at the COP16 nature summit in Colombia?

This photo, during Cyclone Remal, was taken from the Jelepara area of South Halishahar in Patenga, Chattogram in May 2024. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Bangladesh faces climate debt risk with $79.61 per capita burdens: Report

People cross the bridge amid the overflowing Bagmati River following heavy rains, in Kathmandu, Nepal September 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

Climate change worsened deadly Nepal floods, scientists say

Debapriya shared his thoughts during the “National Coalition Launch” of Fair Finance Bangladesh held at the Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka’s Gulshan today. Photo: TBS

Debapriya for assessing climate-related investments

US President Joe Biden looks on next to Air Force One as he arrives to visit storm-damaged areas in the wake of Hurricanes Milton and Helene, at MacDill Air Force Base Airport in Tampa, Florida, US, October 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Hurricane Milton: Biden tours Florida's storm-hit streets as debris piles up

A drone view shows a pick-up truck driving through a flooded street following Hurricane Milton in Siesta Key, Florida, US, October 10, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Marco Bello

Florida residents hit by Milton and Helene vow to rebuild

Flooding in the desert town of Merzouga. Extratropical storms may change weather conditions in the region in the coming months and years. Photo: AP/UNB

Rare image shows first floods in Sahara in 50 years

'Cholita' a Spectacled bear walks on a tree at the dry forest of the Chaparri Natural Reserve in Peru's northern region of Lambayeque October 19, 2014. Picture taken October 19, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo

Record wildfires ravage Peru's ecosystems and wildlife