Bangladesh yesterday asked global community to help people of Bangladesh to fight poverty, mostly triggered by natural calamities in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Bangladesh also asked the global community especially the industrialised developed countries to urgently cutback their dangerous greenhouse gas emissions which cause climate change endangering economic growth of the least developed countries like Bangladesh.

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The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years despite Seoul's exemption from cuts under t

The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years in spite of Seoul's exemption from cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The environment ministry presented the proposal to freeze emissions until 2012 in a report to Lee Myung-bak, the president, in a bid to join international efforts to fight global warming.