Gobeshona Monthly Seminar Hosted By: Oxfam- Bangladesh Presentation title: Mobile Phone Use by the Climate Vulnerable Female Farmers for Adaptation in Farming Presenter: Animators from three research areas and Oxfam-PROTIC team members Chair: Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD, IUB Seminar Venue: Oxfam Office, RAOWA Convention Center, VIP Road, Mohakhali, Dhaka Date: 25 February, 2019 Time: 3.45 pm – 5.15 pm …
Over the last two decades, the issue of global climate change has shifted from being primarily an environmental issue to a global security and diplomatic issue as well. Hence many countries have shifted responsibility from the ministry of environment to the foreign ministry as the focal ministry to handle the issue. This is also a reflection of the fact that …
Promoting an abundance of expertise and research on climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, the Gobeshona Conference, held in Dhaka in January 2018, was a prototype for South-South, peer-to-peer capacity building and knowledge exchange. 11 January 2018: A familiar narrative is that developing countries, which are most vulnerable to the first and worst impacts of climate change, are often the least equipped …
The issue of loss and damage from climate change has been a very politically contentious issue in the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since its beginning. The reason is that developed countries did not want to acknowledge ‘loss and damage’, as they feared it would lead to claims of liability and compensation. Thus,for …
(Originally published here) The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized the launching ceremony of the Gobeshona Young Research Program (GYRP) on Monday, 11 May 2015 at IUB’s campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka. The USAID has awarded a grant for two years to the ICCCAD for the GYRP program. The Gobeshona Young Research Program …
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD spoke to the fastest growing English daily in Bangladesh, Dhaka Tribune about the status of climate change research in Bangladesh, the reasons behind it and the way forward. The conversation was focused on the Gobeshona platform and the upcoming Gobeshona conference. The full interview can be accessed in the link provided below: Dr. Saleemul Huq’s Interview …
I recently attended the Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University in Brighton, UK. The workshop brought together members of the Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group. This group is organised via a Coordination Hub hosted by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and a CKB Steering Committee chaired by the Climate …
Gobeshona is a new initiative being instigated by ICCCAD. It is being established in acknowledgement that much research about climate change in Bangladesh has and is being conducted both nationally and internationally. Resulting publications, however, remain widely dispersed and often unused and little acknowledged. As such, Gobeshona seeks to bring together the wide reaching research community who are investigating an …
