Three renown non-governmental organizations, ICCCAD, the Innovative Finance Foundation, and Oxford Climate Policy, have joined forces to propose the use of “International Climate Solidarity Levies”. Their initiative demonstrates how levies can be developed to mobilize funding for the new Loss & Damage Response Fund. With climate change causing loss and damage to societies around the world, the Loss and Damage …

This is first full-fledged Annual Report published by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF.

VIENNA, 5 April 2023 – People on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh see the assistance they receive as unfair, insufficient and feel responders don’t listen to their views, reveals research released by Ground Truth Solutions, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The report surveys 2,300 citizens in three areas …

Over the last few decades, it has been recognised that adaptation approaches are more likely to succeed if they are rooted in local knowledge and empower communities to make their own decisions. However, research conducted by GTS and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in 2021 shows that the fine aspirations found in the documentation to engage and …

The stories in this compilation, based on the sessions of the 2022 Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation, are an important basis for us to understand the difference between local action and locally led action, and to identify effective ways of supporting local leadership. The publication is based on case-studies from the 2nd annual  gobeshona global conference, on locally led adaptation, hosted …

According to the World Economic Forum (2020) Global Risks Report, failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change presents the greatest risk to the global economy in terms of severity of impact. Meanwhile, extreme weather – which is exacerbated by climate change (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016) – is listed as the risk most likely to damage the …

Climate-related loss and damage is escalating, with many countries experiencing new forms of climate impact, of increasing intensity. The focus until now has been on calculating the economic repercussions of climate risk. Its wider impacts and resulting hidden costs of climate change — such as loss of cultural heritage — are less understood and harder to quantify. This knowledge gap …

Feeding and nourishing a growing global population in Bangladesh is a major challenge in a changing climate. A multi-level participatory scenario approach with corresponding modeling and decision support tools is developed and applied to support decision-makers in developing scenario-guided enabling policy for food security in the future under climate change. The results presented in this paper show how, under different …

The report highlights challenges and achievements, potential avenues to expand our existing Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) at Shakipur which was recognized by the Bangladesh Government in the 8th FYP. WaterAid undertook this study in collaboration with International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). Published by: WaterAid Bangladesh,  October 2022 Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please …

This climate researcher from Bangladesh helped to force wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. In the final hours before the close of last month’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt, exhausted delegates slumped on sofas outside the formal meeting rooms. But not Saleemul Huq, who was sitting upright, rapidly checking messages on his phone. …