Danish minister to visit Bangladesh's climate-vulnerable areas | Top News

The Danish minister, Connie Hedegaard, is scheduled to be in Dhaka on a two-day official visit beginning on Monday.

She will discuss with her Bangladesh counterpart Mustafizur Rahman about Dhaka's preparedness for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, where world leaders will meet to agree on a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol in December.

Hedegaard is also expected to deliver a speech at a conference entitled "Bangladesh on the road to Copenhagen - towards a global deal on climate change at COP15, December 2009" in Bangladesh capital, an official of the ministry of environment and forestry said.

Prometheus: Bangladesh's landmass is increasing

DHAKA (AFP) - New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say.

Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.