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Soil Degradation and Food Security: An Environmental Concern Healthy soil is essential for growing food, and its ongoing degradation is now a major global concern. From the rice we eat to the vegetables we cook, all of it depends on healthy soil. But what happens when the soil is no longer able to grow food? […]
Saleemul Huq was a leading climate expert and was the co-author of a number of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. On the eve of an international climate conference in Dhaka, titled “6th Gobeshona: International Conference on Research into Action” The Business Standard talked with him on a number of burning issues. The interview […]
Southeast Asia needs to scale-up its renewables. IEEFA’s Grant Hauber explains how the region can unlock investment and cut volatility Southeast Asia stands at a crossroads in its energy transition. Rapid economic growth, volatile fossil fuel markets and intensifying climate risks are pushing governments to rethink their energy strategies. Rising trade tensions between China and […]
Chinese international cooperation mechanisms such as the Belt and Road Initiative could fill the gaps left by US withdrawal, writes Zhou Xiaozhu On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. That was followed by a termination of US […]
Ainun Nishat, a leading South Asia water expert, analyses the capacity of the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 to secure sustainable livelihoods and a less vulnerable ecosystem The Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers form the world’s largest delta, two-thirds of which is in Bangladesh. The three rivers and their 700-odd tributaries have brought down silt from […]