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Losses and damages in a climate changed world
Researchers and actors in the policy discourse need to recognize how personal and traumatic loss and damage is in many cases
Loss and damage from anthropogenic climate change is now a rapidly expanding debate on climate justice and injustices. The strong currents of discussion at COP26 in Glasgow last year were mostly below the surface of the formal negotiations. The loss and damage debate has moved on and holds that there is no longer room for…
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Loss and Damage, what’s next from Scotland?
If the world is to tackle the worst impacts of climate change then progress must be made at a much quicker pace
For too long the issue of addressing Loss and Damage has remained in the margins of climate negotiations. The Warsaw International Mechanism and the Santiago Network have begun to assist with knowledge exchange and capacity building, yet distinct finance for addressing Loss and Damage has remained largely off the table while progress was made at…
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Taking a human rights-based approach to understand climate-induced displacement in Bangladesh
“I never preferred to migrate to the city, but the disaster, the poverty pushed me towards the city. But the city that saved me from starvation never gave peace.”- Yeasmin Begum (30) used to live at Miar Char village of Badaghat south union of Sumanganj district of Sylhet division. She migrated to Dhaka due to…
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Mobilizing youth for better tomorrow
Incorporating young people in the fight against climate change can have a profound impact
Youth can be recognized as resources and competent citizens in their own right, rather than as problematic or passive recipients of services. In adult-dominated processes, tokenistic treatment of a few youth members fails to recognize youth as assets with meaningful contributions to offer. Providing young people with significant opportunities to engage in decision-making processes,…
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The 2nd Gobeshona Global Conference
A growing platform for knowledge about climate change and potential solutions
GOBESHONA is an innovative knowledge platform for climate change researchers in Bangladesh formed by Dr Saleemul Huq in 2014 to work on building the capacity to adapt to climate change. This platform aims to bring together the national and international research communities to encourage sharing, enhance the quality of research, and, in doing so, make…
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Comprehensive adaptation measures to address climate change impacts
Climate Bridge Fund’s support to enhance climate resilience in slums of selected urban areas in Bangladesh
Among the urban hotspots, Rajshahi and Khulna are two cities where around 76% and 55% of climate migrants live respectively (GIZ, 2019). These destinations of the climate migrants are also vulnerable to climate change related hazards thus the people coming to the cities or those who are already living there are both at the risk…
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COP27: The Governance Challenges for Santiago Network for Loss and Damage
The idea of establishing an implementation arm of Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM), was put forward by the Least Developing Countries (LDCs) at COP25, held in Madrid in 2019. It was quickly accepted by other groups like AOSIS, AGN and AILAC. Hence, G-77 and China moved with the common position to negotiate with the developed country Parties. However,…
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Financing loss and damage: A path to building the bridge
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s premier body for climate science, released two crucial reports in early 2022 under its 6th Assessment Report that confirm what we already know: The climate crisis is an issue of the present and its impacts are already being felt across the world, with the hardest-hitting impacts…
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Home is where the heart is
Statistics concerning climate change often conceal real people with real lives and real losses
Despite loss and damage from human-induced climate change getting attention at COP26, there has been little action to avert, minimize, and address the loss and damage experienced by those bearing the brunt of climate change. Climate change impacts everyone, but people will not all face this challenge in the same way, as its impacts are…
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Gobeshona goes global due to Covid pandemic
The Gobeshona platform of universities and research Institutes doing research on climate change in Bangladesh was created in 2013 with a handful of members and has now grown to over fifty members. During that time it has supported a monthly webinar for researchers to share their research with each other and also held an annual…
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Climate change is a matter of human rights, too
The concept of human-induced climate change originated from the scientific community based on the periodic assessment reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was then picked up by policymakers at global levels. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was set up as a global treaty under which countries pledged…