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Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Photo: Masum Billah/TBS

The world can't solve climate change without naming fossil fuels, says UN Rapporteur Puentes Riaño

As COP30 enters a decisive phase, UN Special Rapporteur Astrid Puentes Riaño warns that climate action will remain compromised unless the world confronts the fossil fuels driving the crisis. She...

Mohammad Navid Safiullah, deputy head of delegation and additional secretary at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, delivered the country’s national statement in Belém, Brazil on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh calls for 1.5°C target, scaled-up finance, and climate equity at COP30

Campaigners press negotiators to put meaningful funds into adaptation as debates over the GGA framework intensify. Photo: Sohanur Rahman

Climate adaptation works. So why is the world still dragging its feet?

Delegates remain split over whether COP30 will commit to a fossil fuel phase-out and how responsibility will be distributed across developed and developing economies. Photo: Shamsuddin Illius/TBS

COP30 talks stumble as finance, fossil fuel, tech & gender negotiations deadlocked

Migratory birds arriving before onset of winter in northern region

Migratory birds arriving before onset of winter in northern region

Water level has started increasing as the severe cyclone Remal is nearing the costal areas of Southern Bangladesh. The photo was taken from Patakhali village of Padmapukur union in Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila on Sunday (26 May). Photo: Awal Sheikh

Bangladesh demands survival-focused climate support at COP30

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Loan-heavy climate finance forcing vulnerable nations into rising debt trap, Experts warn in Belem

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How Bangladesh’s youth-led climate organisations battle funding gaps

A drone view shows a boat, carrying Indigenous representatives from across Latin America, arriving in Belem, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), in Brazil, on 9 November 2025. Photo: Reuters

From the Andes to the Amazon, indigenous leaders arrive for COP30 climate summit

The BLF and the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) jointly organised a press briefing at the National Press Club on Sunday, 9 November 2025. Photo: Collected

Labour groups demand workers’ voice in climate policymaking

UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record

UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record

A view shows emissions from the chimneys of Yara France plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne near Saint-Nazaire, France on 4 March 2022. Photo: Reuters

World will overshoot 1.5°C climate goal, UN says

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$248m lost to corruption across 891 national climate projects over 14 years: TIB