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Motaher Hossain

Across local, regional and global forums, the future of the planet and humanity has become a subject of intense discussion. Yet within global civil society, visible frustration is growing. The world appears to be moving toward an unavoidable climate catastrophe-fueled largely by the deliberate inaction of leaders from fossil-fuel-rich and oil-exporting nations. The recently concluded ...

How coastal women farmers fighting climate risks

Motaher Hossain

Although women in Bangladesh are engaged in diverse professions, their work often remains undervalued, overlooked, and unrecognized. Instead of receiving appreciation for their labor, they frequently encounter social stigma, criticism, and discrimination. Among the most affected are marginalized women farmers, whose lives are shaped by both gender inequality and climate change-induced hardships. These women balance ...

COP30 does little to save our planet

Motaher Hossain

The two-week COP30 summit, held in Belém-Brazil's city near the Amazon-failed to ignite any real hope for protecting the planet. The responsibility for this failure does not lie solely with the host country, Brazil, but also with industrially advanced nations and the United Nations, which is tasked with safeguarding the world's forests and climate. Just ...

Why major emitters are doing so little to cut carbon emissions

Motaher Hossain

At the UN-organized global climate conference COP30, now underway in the Amazon-adjacent Brazilian city of Belém, discussions across various thematic sessions-attended by high-level government representatives, scientists, researchers, and economists-have revealed a deeply troubling picture. Data and analysis presented in these sessions show disappointing progress on carbon emission reduction and climate finance for vulnerable nations. At ...

What to expect from COP30

Motaher Hossain

The 30th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, COP30, began on November 10 in Belém, Brazil. The conference is scheduled to run until November 20. Nearly 150 countries have gathered on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belém to determine collective strategies to combat the ...

Challenges ahead for our economy

Motaher Hossain

To bring relief to the people of the country, it is urgently necessary at this moment to revitalize the weak economy, control the prices of essential commodities, increase investment and employment, and prioritize resolving instability in the export-oriented ready-made garment industry, including reopening closed factories. Above all, maintaining law and order to reduce political and ...

Hidden mysteries of universe

Motaher Hossain

This universe holds countless known and unknown phenomena. Many of them remain unseen by humans, yet they exist, and their presence can be felt or inferred. In reality, we have never directly observed them because they are invisible, shrouded in darkness. Astronomers continuously search for these unseen objects, and after persistent research, they have finally ...

How to save our rivers from disappearing

Motaher Hossain

The birth, history, economy, and culture of Bangladesh are rooted in its rivers. The Padma, Meghna, Jamuna, Brahmaputra, Teesta, Kapotaksha, and Dhaleshwari-each river carries a living history. Agriculture, navigation, fisheries, even language and music bear the deep imprint of rivers. That is why Bangladesh is known as the "Land of Rivers."But today, this identity is ...

Bangladesh being trapped in a cycle of climate debt

Motaher Hossain

Bangladesh ranks among the countries most affected by climate change. Excessive greenhouse gas emissions are warming the atmosphere, accelerating global climate change. While industrialized nations are primarily responsible, they have largely avoided taking responsibility for mitigating the consequences. As a result, countries like Bangladesh - low-income and small island nations - bear disproportionate impacts, including rising ...

How technology changing lives of our children

Motaher Hossain

We now live in a changed world-one that is shaped and driven by knowledge, science, and technology. The present generation is undoubtedly a technology-dependent generation. In particular, young people from the age of five to thirty are the driving force of this transformed, tech-centered world.Just two decades ago, children in our country used to spend ...