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BANGLADESH: Factory inspections "aggressive, but do-able"
2014-03-11 15:05:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Initial factory inspection reports completed on facilities used by members of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh have for the first time shed light on the scale and type of problems being encountered.
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Bangladesh factory checks show widespread safety issues
2014-03-10 20:26:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
First findings from inspections at ten garment factories used by members of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh have highlighted widespread fire, electrical safety and potential structural problems. But none are on a par with those that caused the collapse of the Rana Plaza building last April - and the assessments are on track for completion in September.
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BANGLADESH: EU not satisfied with factory safety efforts
2014-03-10 13:57:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The European Union's representative in Bangladesh has expressed dissatisfaction at the country's progress towards improving worker and building safety in the apparel industry.
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Bangladesh warns of rising climate change costs as donations plummet
2014-03-10 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bangladesh needs $5bn (3bn) over the next five years to adapt to current climate changes, and the cost is rising each year, according to a lead negotiator for developing countries in the UN climate talks, which resume in Bonn on Monday. It, and other developing countries, may have been promised $30bn as "fast-start finance" before $100bn a year is theoretically mobilised for developing countries in 2020, but the global recession and reluctance by rich countries to match their pledges with money...
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UN Climate Deal at Risk Without Set Targets, Bangladesh Says
2014-03-05 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Nations risk repeating the failure of climate talks in 2009 unless they sign up to mandatory emissions reductions in a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, according to Bangladeshs climate envoy to the United Nations. Unless we have mandatory targets to cut emissions that are enforceable under international law, we are headed for failure at next years climate summit in Paris, Quamrul Chowdhury, who also acts as lead negotiator for 49 least-developed countries at the UN talks, said in an interview...
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