Dispatches, frontline narratives, and announcements from the Friendship Climate Finance Conference.
A landmark five-year climate adaptation fund announced in Dhaka to scale solar electrification, disaster-adapted schools, and floating health clinics across vulnerable shifting river islands.
Over 40 international delegations, sovereign donor representatives, and climate scientists gather at the Radisson Blu to pioneer direct-access climate financing models.
Equipped with surgical suites and digital health telemetry, Friendship’s fleet of hospital ships continues to provide vital care across sandbar chars cut off from mainland infrastructure.
Decentralized clean energy networks provide uninterrupted power to cyclone shelters, emergency clinics, and smallholder farming collectives in Satkhira and Patuakhali.
Frontline community leaders call on international climate funds to bypass intermediate overheads and deliver funds directly to frontline community trusts.
Community-led coastal greenbelts have restored hundreds of hectares of natural tidal barriers, shielding riverbanks against storm surges and tidal inundation.
