In an exclusive interview for the Gulf News of UEA on the eve of the Copenhagen talks, Dipal Barua calls for the creation of a climate fund to help poor nations of the world tackle the threat of climate change.

Barua is MD of Grameen Shakti, winner of the Ashden Award's Outstanding Achievement Award in 2008 and subsequently won the first-ever Zayed Future Energy Prize from the Abu Dhabi government. He is described in the article as the "driving force behind expanding renewable technologies in Bangladesh."