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Developing countries are leading climate actions
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) was launched over 10 years ago, by then President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and has been operating since then with a different head of government in charge of it for a two-year tenure. The current chair of CVF is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, whose term is scheduled…
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Making our voices heard
Bangladeshi scientists continue to be missing in leading publications on climate change
On February 28, the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report (AR6) for Working Group II (WGII) was released, serving as the new basis for global policy-making on how to adapt to climate change. As one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and a global leader in adaptation, Bangladeshi scientists should…
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Another grim warning on climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global body under the United Nations (UN), has been conducting periodic reviews (every six or seven years) of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change for the last 30 years. The agency is currently in the process of publishing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in three…
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Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Bangladesh
The latest IPCC report makes it clear that countries rich and poor have to forcefully adapt to a warming world
Human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases have raised global temperatures, causing major impacts on Earth’s ecosystems and human society, as the first installment of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made unequivocally clear in August. The second installment of that report, released on February 28, makes the stark and game-changing revelation…
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Climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability of Bangladesh: IPCC assessment in the previous reports and situation on the ground
Bangladesh ranks as the 7th most vulnerable country to climate change and has received significant attention in the last IPCC reports including the AR6 WG I report. However, in the upcoming AR6 WGII report the country must receive attention for its remarkable progress in achieving resilience
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) successive reports are the most valued evidence of climate change’s drastic impacts on society, economy, and the natural system. These reports have served to alert laymen and policymakers alike about the changes the world has witnessed over the years and will witness in the future. IPCC reports gather…
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The three stages of Loss and Damage
The topic of Loss and Damage from Human induced climate change has been a politically sensitive one for many years as the developed countries feared that it would open them to claims of compensation based on their liability. It was only in COP19 in Warsaw, Poland in 2013 that all the countries in the UNFCCC…
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The world needs to support the victims of climate change
In the last few weeks, three separate cyclones hit the island of Madagascar and then Mozambique, causing loss of life and damage to infrastructure. Even in the UK, Storm Eunice caused much damage. These are just a few examples of the loss and damage attributable to human-induced climate change, and in every such incident, it…
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Locally led adaptation: We can lead the world
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) was set up with its headquarters in the Netherlands a couple of years ago, and has already developed into a major platform focusing on supporting countries to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. It has already set up regional centres in China and Africa, and is about…
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The benefits of mainstreaming circular economy in school textbooks
Incorporation of the simplified concept of circular economy in school textbooks can influence our consumption behaviour and raise awareness on climate change
Does our consumption behaviour have any impact on climate change? Yes, it has – it is driving climate change. Now the million-dollar question is how. When we waste food while dining at our home, we not only waste food but also waste energy and other interrelated elements like water it needs to grow, resources…