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Women need more adaptation funding, activists charge
Posted by AlertNet: Syful Islam on January 21st, 2013
AlertNet: Despite being disproportionately affected by climate change, women and girls are getting relatively little attention and money in Bangladesh's climate adaptation initiatives, activists and negotiators say.
The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund, financed with Tk 25 billion ($305 million) from the national budget, has financed only one project focused on women out of 109 climate adaptation and mitigation projects, they say.
Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, coordinator of the Bangladesh climate negotiation...
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Bangladesh: Experts seek ways to avert water crisis in Dhaka
Posted by AlertNet: Syful Islam on July 16th, 2012
AlertNet: Bangladesh's water experts are forecasting a water crisis in the country's capital, due to its rapidly rising population and overdependence on underground water which is being depleted at an alarming rate.
According to the World Bank, Dhaka is fast becoming one of the world's largest cities, with its population of nearly 14 million expected to rise to 22-25 million by 2020.
"Every day new buildings are rising up and people from the countryside are pouring (in) here, but no new water sources...