Unanswered questions threaten to breed mistrust in the promises of climate-change funding that governments made in the Copenhagen Accord at December’s UN summit, says a paper published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
In the Copenhagen Accord developed countries pledged US$30 billion over the three years from 2010 to 2013 and US$100 [...]

Journalist and columnist Parvez Babul’s book has been published recently keeping ahead the Ekushey Book Fair, February, 2010. Title: Women’s Empowerment, Food Security and Climate Change. The articles were published in the Daily Star, weekly HOLIDAY, Bangladesh Observer and Sexing the Political, USA.

Several audio programs despatched by the AMARC team of reporters from climate change meeting in Copenhagen are available at http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=AMARC_cop15_2009_podcast. You are invited to listen, download and rebroadcast.

A huge human chain was formed at Laboni point of Cox’s Bazar beach yesterday morning with the slogan “Save Cox’s Bazar, save Bangladesh; We want to save ourselves from global warming.” People from all walks of life including people’s representatives, government and non-government officials participated in the programme.

More than 2000 delegates watched the four-minute long film ‘Please Help the World’ when COP15 opened this morning. Thousands of other delegates watched the opening on screens in meeting rooms at the Bella Center.