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A new draft agreement for the UN climate conference in Glasgow on Saturday maintained a core demand for countries to set more ambitious plans to tackle global warming and asked them to phase out inefficient subsidies for the fossil fuels heating the planet.

Tuvalu’s foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to show how his low-lying Pacific Island nation is on the front line of climate change.

Governments will push for an agreement on Monday on how to help vulnerable countries deal with global warming and compensate them for damage already done, a test of whether developing and rich nations can end a standoff over cash for climate change.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a ‘failure’ during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding swifter action from leaders to address the emergency.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday held a bilateral meeting with her British counterpart Boris Johnson on the sidelines of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the world would have to share the responsibilities of the climate migrants, as she addressed the Scottish Parliament at an event titled ‘Call for Climate Prosperity’.

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More than 100 countries were set to pledge Tuesday to end deforestation, which scientists say is a major driver of climate change.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said being major sufferers of climate change women deserved an enhanced stake in the campaign against the phenomenon, requiring bolder steps for their empowerment particularly to develop resilience.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the global adaptation actions are not being effective due to a lack of finance and strong political will.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that Bangladesh has canceled 10 coal-based power plants involving 12 billion dollars of foreign investment, just to supplement its efforts against the adverse impacts of climate change.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanded rich countries immediate recognition to the vulnerable nations’ needs for finance to face climate change onslaughts particularly because 48 poorer territories are exposed to the worst despite their only five percent contribution to the global emission.

More than 120 world leaders meet in Glasgow on Monday in the last, best hope to tackle the climate crisis and avert a looming global disaster.

With the UK hosts warning that lights are flashing red on the climate change dashboard, the COP26 UN climate summit kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, marked by pointed warnings of growing threats as emissions-cutting pledges still fail to add up.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell a climate summit on Monday that it’s one minute to midnight and we need to act now as he calls on leaders to go beyond their pledges to developing nations and act on coal, cars, cash and trees.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in Glasgow, the port city of Scotland, on a two-week visit to the United Kingdom and France to attend the COP26 world leaders’ summit and other high-level events.

Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urged meaningful and effective action to limit global warming but offered few concrete commitments and disappointed climate activists.

Delegates, campaigners and journalists traveling by train to the UN climate conference in Glasgow fell victim to a weather-related delay on Sunday - a toppled tree on a railway line.

New Zealand set itself an ambitious new emissions reduction target Sunday, with a pledge to halve its net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for the United Kingdom and France this morning on a two-week visit to attend the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and other events.