ICCCAD and IUB E-Lecture Series on 28 June 2021 LECTURE ON ‘HOW CAN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO FAIR ​DEVELOPMENT?’ by Dr Lisa Schipper International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Science and Management at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised its second webinar on June 28th, 2021. Dr Lisa Schipper, an Environmental Social …

2019 is proving to be a game-changing year with regard to the issue of global climate change in a number of ways. First, we are seeing the unequivocal attribution of incidents starting from hurricanes, wildfires, floods—such as in the mid-Western states in the US—to human-induced climate change repercussions. From now onwards, it is fairly safe to say that the severity …

Last week the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland with more than 4,000 delegates from all over the world and many different stakeholders including government, UN agencies, private sector, civil society, women’s groups, indigenous peoples’ groups, youth groups, groups related to people with disabilities, and many others. I had been invited to …

In the Paris Agreement on climate change, which was agreed on in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries agreed to take actions to tackle climate change through both mitigation (to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases) and adaptation (to cope with the adverse impacts). Through Article …