Category: Interviews

Interview: Why trust, not cash, is key to locally led adaptation

ICCCAD’s Savio Rousseau Rozario explains why donors should put CASH – ‘compassion, accountability, security and honour’ – at the heart of efforts to help local communities build resilience to climate change. In May, the 18th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA18) in Tanzania focused on approaches for accelerating climate change resilience through locally led adaptation (LLA). Among…
New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it

New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it Climate finance for adaptation projects is delivered through a chain comprising actors that provide the funds, intermediaries that allocate those funds and local communities and organisations that implement projects with the money they receive. But not…
Prof Saleemul Huq’s Interview | Textile Symposium

Prof Saleemul Huq (ICCCAD & IUB) interviewed by Prof Günther & Prof Karthe (UNU-FLORES) This interview recorded on 10 August 2023 in the run-up to the upcoming Textile Symposium taking place 6 – 7 September 2023 in Dresden (https://go.unu.edu/WMczc).
Discussion on Climate Adaptation and Climate Change in Developing Countries

The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), based at the Independent University Bangladesh, is a world-class institution focused on climate change, particularly adaptation. It aims to generate and distribute knowledge on climate change to aid adaptation, specifically in the global south. ICCCAD’s goals include training leaders, conducting research, building capacity for Less Developed…
This is not tax-payer money

Seen from the global south, the funding scenario that results from a fragmented global-policy arena is totally unfair. The Bangladeshi climate scholar Saleemul Huq discussed matters in a D+C/E+Z interview. In my reading, the Glasgow climate summit COP26 basically resulted in leaving it to market forces to put a check on global warming. The agreements…
A Conversation with Saleemul Huq

On January 19, Saleemul Huq(link is external), director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), joined Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, in a conversation addressing adaptation to climate change in the most vulnerable countries. What are your takeaways from COP26 in Glasgow and the focus on loss and damage? My analogy with where…
‘I am quite disheartened by the outcome of COP26’
_{Interview with leading climate policy expert Saleemul Huq}

One of the veterans of the COP summit, Dr Saleemul Huq once again attended the conference last month. Regarded as one of the most influential climate scientists and policy experts in the world, Huq is widely cited in the international media and advocacy literature when it comes to climate change policy issues. The Bangladeshi academic…
Bangladeshi veteran of UN climate talks fears COP26 will fail the world’s poorest

Slow action to cut emissions and deliver finance means Glasgow summit will likely fall short of keeping 1.5C goal alive and protecting vulnerable people, warns Saleemul Huq * Climate summit logistics favour rich, but wild weather hits all * Failure to deliver climate finance for vulnerable ‘a farce’ * Youth and big-emitting developing nations start…
The Climate Question | Should rich countries help pay for climate change impacts in poorer ones?

As extreme weather events become more frequent and intense, the developing world says urgent action is needed to avert catastrophe. Some in the developing world say that as richer countries caused the bulk of global emissions, they should compensate them for the losses and damages caused by the climate crisis. But will delegates, negotiators and…
‘Bangladesh is a nano-emitter globally but the emissions have serious impacts on the local level’

Interview with Prof Mizan R Khan To preface this issue of Climate Tribune — which looks at some aspects of the role of the private sector in climate change — we interviewed one of the leading experts in climate change policy in the country Professor Mizan R Khan. Deputy Director with the International Centre for…
From Fires to Floods to Sea Level Rise, Human-Induced Climate Crisis Is Severely Disrupting Earth

We continue to discuss the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which details the damage of climate change already underway around the world and warns that much worse is yet to come unless governments drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The report tallies the losses from human-induced climate change “in an absolutely scientifically verifiable…
‘Adaptation swap can be an effective instrument if designed well’

Leading climate policy expert Mizan R Khan talks about the G7 summit and its relations to climate change action This year’s G7 summit is scheduled to begin tomorrow, where the leaders of the G7 countries will meet to discuss important policies. Climate change will be among the topics these economic superpower will discuss and take…