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Tongibari, Aug 27 (EFE/EPA).- People in the outskirts of Dhaka on Friday tried to salvage their furniture and parts of their homes as the erosion of river Padma continues washing away concrete structures.According to the UNICEF report, Bangladesh ranks second among South Asian countries where children are at extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, 15th globally in UNICEF’s index. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE SALVAGE FURNITURE AND PARTS OF THEIR DAMAGED HOUSES AT TONGIBARI, MUNSHIGANJ DISTRICT OUTSKIRTS OF DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Pope Francis spoke out once more about dangers of a global environmental catastrophe, saying that humanity "will go down" if it does not address the issue of climate change as he spoke to press on board his plane on Monday while returning to the Holy See from a trip to Colombia.
French President Emmanuel Macron meets family in New Caledonia impacted by climate change, after arriving in Touho earlier today. IMAGES
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slams multinational corporations for turning the world's ecosystems into "playthings of profit" and warns failure to change course would lead to catastrophic results."With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," he says, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in Montreal. SOUNDBITE