by Runa Khan,15 June, 2025 On World Environment Day, the conversation around plastic pollution takes centre stage—globally, in treaty rooms and international campaigns, and locally, as we stare at rivers choked by waste and fields littered with non-biodegradable...
Climate Adaptation
A Climate-Conscious Nod to Rural Empowerment
How sustainable, ethical slow fashion goes against the grain in Bangladesh Colourful threads from the rural riverine life in Bangladesh are firmly standing ground against climate change and pollution. © Friendship by Iffat Ara Sharmeen, 4 June, 2025 While most...
Friendship Founder Speaks at the ChangeNOW Summit 2025
Runa Khan presents the harsh climate reality of Bangladesh through the story of Jashim, a child who lost his home to river erosion in the Brahmaputra River. © Jean-Salman Marre/Friendship by Friendship News Desk, 1 June, 2025 Runa Khan attended the ChangeNOW Summit...
Friendship at CBA19
More than 400 climate adaptation practitioners teamed up at CBA19 to build a collective message on community led action, ahead of COP30. © Friendship by Friendship News Desk,27 May, 2025 The 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change...
Perspectives from inside a worldwide climate adaptation movement
by Stéphane Van Haute and Kazi Amdadul Hoque,25 May, 2025 In these chaotic times, when the planet's climatic future seems at stake, suspended on disconnected decisions of certain governments, the international community of those who take climate action on a day-to-day...
From the Chars to France
Bangladeshi youth from remote villages set to attend the European Youth Event (EYE) 2025 to represent their communities Yusuf, Munni, Mizan, and Sakia (from left to right) are ready to take on Europe and share their community’s stories and resolve against climate...
Building a Future with Locally Led Adaptation
Friendship founder shares insights on LLA at the opening session of the Gobeshona Global Conference 5 by Friendship News Desk,28 April, 2025 Hosted by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) from 26 – 30 April, 2025, the Gobeshona platform...
Our People, Our Power, Our Planet
Inequity in Renewable Energy Responsibility on World Earth Day 2025 by Iffat Ara Sharmeen,22 April, 2025 This World Earth Day is all about championing the tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030 in the wake of rising populations and energy demands. As...
Healing Communities and Nature with the One Health Approach
by Iffat Ara Sharmeen, 20 April, 2025 As the planet traverses through one climate crisis after another, it will not be too long before the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems face a systemic collapse. Adapting strategies from the One Health concept...
Holidays for most, Calamity for some
Flash floods hit Satkhira on Eid, emergency services deployed An embankmnent broke on the morning of Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest and most important holiday in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. © Friendship by Friendship News Desk,6 April, 2025 On the morning of Eid, as the new...
Women of Valour 2025: Accelerating Action, Empowering Change
Clockwise from the top - Rozina Akter, Purnima Rani, Sajeda Begum and Mosammat Manowara, the four recipients of the Women of Valour Award 2025. © Friendship by Friendship News Desk,March 8, 2025 Every International Women's Day since 2022, Friendship awards four women,...
Rokeya Khatun: A Climate Champion Nurturing Hope
Rokeya Khatun decided that middle-age was not too late to turn her life around, despite her circumstances. © Friendship by Iffat Ara Sharmeen,27 February, 2025 43-year-old Rokeya transformed her land and home into a sustainable space to escape poverty, but her...