Netherlands has shown interest to work with Dhaka for supporting its climate change and disaster mitigation programmes.
Outgoing Netherlands Ambassador Ms. Bea Ten Tusscher said this to Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque during her farewell meeting at the Secretariat yesterday.
The World Bank with the help of other development partners is going to conduct a study on costing of adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is one of the seven developing countries where the WB is to carry out such studies in partnership with the governments of UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
The World Bank has launched a study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh in partnership with the British, the Netherlands and Switzerland Governments.
The multinational lender also launched the study globally. Other than Bangladesh, this study will be carried out in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Vietnam and Samoa.
This report is meant to contribute to the debate between policymakers and research groups on the steps that need to be taken to meet long-term climate targets. This reports shows that the current focus on intermediate targets for the year 2020 needs to be extended to include the long-term targets.
The share of microgeneration (power generation at the level of households and small businesses) in the Dutch electricity system continues to grow. Over time, this development may pose a threat to the reliability and efficiency of the Dutch electricity balancing market. We investigated possible changes to the design of the Dutch balancing market that can maintain or even improve upon its current operational performance level. The first step of the research was an analysis of the existing Dutch balancing market.
Restaurant chain McDonald's Europe launched a farming program on Thursday which could lead to cows getting weekly foot baths but water being saved in the production of lettuce and tomatoes.
The company, which has 6,600 restaurants in 40 European countries, is seeking to tackle a wide range of environmental and animal welfare issues through a flagship farm initiative.
There are strong links between the problems of climate change and air pollution, in particular the fact that emissions from fossil fuel combustion contribute significantly to both problems. Consequently, measures to abate emissions of greenhouse gases may show strong co-benefits in terms of less air pollution and vice versa.
Investing in urban cycling provisions is ultimate climate strategy European countries have committed to reduce carbon emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020, compared to 1990. This includes my country: the Netherlands. The targeted reductions are realized at home or through
