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MNA National Desk: The Ministry of Environment and Forest has been renamed Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The approval for changing the name was given at a Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting Cabinet Secretary Md. Shafiul Alam said the change in the name of the ministry has been done keeping consistency with neighbouring countries, reported news agency. The cabinet also approved a proposal to allow the concerned officials to fell trees in the reserved in Moheshkhali of Cox’s Bazar district for installation of ...

MNA International Desk: The United States announced Friday it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming, reported news agency. Two months after President Donald Trump announced the United States would abandon the 2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its ‘intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement’ — a process that will take at least until 2020. But in a statement, the State Department said Washington was still committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions ...