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Call for Youth Innovation Fund – Sponsoring Green Idea/Campaign -2024
We are excited to launch the “Youth Innovation Fund” for year 2024 and welcoming applications from the motivated youth individuals or groups. Applications are welcome from anywhere in Bangladesh who are willing to work on green ideas for promoting better social leadership or raising environmental awareness through campaigns. What is the Youth Innovation Fund? The…
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What Bangladesh can do before COP29
This year’s climate summit—the 28th Conference of the Parties for climate change (COP28)—started with a surprise on the very first day: the operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fund, where the COP28 presidency pioneered a pledge of $100 million. By the end of the event, the pledges totalled almost $700 million. Though this amount is paltry…
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Saleemul Huq (1952–2023)
Saleemul (Saleem) Huq was one of the ten most influential climate experts, Advisor to the UAE COP 28 Presidency and Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Climate Change. However, beyond these and other distinctions, he was a compassionate soul who understood the human dimension of climate change to its core. His empathy for those…
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Vlog | Understanding the overlapping risks of Climate Change and Urbanisation: building a response to gendered wellbeing
In the era of climate change, growing inequality, rapid urbanization, the world is dealing with complex and deeply entangled crises. If not addressed, the complex crises developed through such overlapping risks will ultimately overwhelm our capacity to adapt. In this video vlog, experts are discussing the importance of addressing the overlapping risks of climate change…
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Call for Youth Innovation Fund for Youth-led organization
ICCCAD is launching the “Youth Innovation Fund” for the year 2024. Applications are welcome from youth-led and youth serving organizations who are working in field of climate change and environmental sustainability to improve the lives of climate vulnerable communities of Bangladesh. What is the Youth Innovation Fund? Youth Innovation Fund is a small grant support…
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Call for Application – ICCCAD Youth Fellowship -2024
Young people and future generations are the steward of the future. Globally, youths are advocating in climate issue at local, national and international level. Youth are working to address their concerns and provide solutions to real-world problems regarding climate change. As youth are the largest demography and highest potentially to bring the changes, Youth voices…
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Prof. Mizan R Khan’s statement on Climate + Devex Summit at COP 28
Watch Prof. Mizan R Khan’s statement on late Prof. Saleem Devex Summit at COP 28. This Video originally published on DEVEX MEDIA.
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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…
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Empathy: A Key Enabler for Harnessing Effective Community-centered Adaptation
The following article is an outcome of the four-day long workshop titled “Building Bridges for Community-Centered Climate Resilience” organized by East-West Center and Rockefeller Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 3-7, 2023. Overview The impact of human-induced climate change is one of the greatest challenges of today’s time, affecting the communities living on the frontline…
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Opinion: Effective climate adaptation must be locally-led
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in 2021, stated that South Asia will face intensified monsoon seasons, heatwaves and changing snowmelt patterns as the planet warms. And yet, the people most affected are often left out of adaptation projects. According to the think tank International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), “estimates suggest under 10…
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Pay attention to what poor communities want and need
Though agriculture has helped to reduce poverty in Bangladesh, families who depend on small-scale farming still struggle economically. The climate crisis is exacerbating their problems, and they are the least able to adapt.When Bangladesh became independent in 1971, it was an agrarian country with low incomes on average. Today, agriculture is no longer dominant, contributing only about 14 % to gross domestic product. Nonetheless, the sector still matters very much. It employs a bit less than half of the workforce and accounts for almost 60 % of female employment.…