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Recording | ICCCAD and IUB E-Lecture Series -Abu Sumon (part-2)
LECTURE ON ‘CLIMATE FISCAL REFORMS IN BANGLADESH’ by Abu Sumon International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Science and Management at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized an e-lecture on August 12th, 2021. Abu Sumon, a Climate Change specialist presented the second part of his two-part lecture series. Part 1 of the lecture Mr. Abu Sumon have played…
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Maddu, Uganda: Story of service above self
In Maddu, a sub-county in Gomba district, Uganda, two women are extending education services during Covid-19 to ensure a bright future for the children. Allen Lunkuse reports. This is the forty-sixth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Maddu, a sub-county of Gomba district, is located in…
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We must urgently prioritise adaptation to address the climate emergency
The recently-published report of Working Group-I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a renewed wakeup call on the urgency of taking action at the global level to address climate change. It has, with more accuracy and confidence, confirmed that at least one degree Celsius of temperature rise compared to pre-industrial level can…
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Transformational Adaptation in the Context of Coastal Cities
Coastal cities, home to more than three billion people and growing rapidly, are highly vulnerable to climate change. Increasingly, there are calls for climate adaptation that goes beyond business-as-usual approaches, transforms socioeconomic systems, and addresses underlying drivers of vulnerability. Although calls for transformational adaptation are growing, greater clarity is needed on what transformation means in…
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‘Bangladesh is a nano-emitter globally but the emissions have serious impacts on the local level’
Interview with Prof Mizan R Khan To preface this issue of Climate Tribune — which looks at some aspects of the role of the private sector in climate change — we interviewed one of the leading experts in climate change policy in the country Professor Mizan R Khan. Deputy Director with the International Centre for…
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PRINTING THE CALAMITY: PATTACHITRA SCROLLS ON TROPICAL CYCLONES AND NATURAL DISASTERS IN SHYAMNAGAR, SHATKHIRA
“We are the people of coastal area, Our sufferings know no bounds, We have to survive fighting various disasters.” —Shagorika Mondol, song sung to pattachitra scroll on disaster awareness How do you creatively inform the community about dealing with a tragedy that regularly befalls them? Or encourage them to stand back on their feet after…
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Local Climate Adapters network
LOCAL CLIMATE ADAPTORS: As of July 2021, the world has already entered the era of human-induced climate change, which is causing adverse impacts around the world in both poor as well as rich countries. Tragically, many people are losing their lives and livelihoods from these extreme events, which include heat waves, wildfires, floods, cyclones and…
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Latest IPCC climate report shows time is running out to save the planet
The science of climate change is assessed every six or so years under the aegis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was set up several decades ago by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)—and it consists of the governments of all UN member states. The IPCC…
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Role of Private sector in tackling climate change
Climate Tribune | July 2021 “Role of Private sector in tackling climate change”. The editorial captures some success stories of Private sectors in Bangladesh. The organizations featured in the editorial are a few of the many companies that have put forth an effort in terms of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation in the country.…
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From Fires to Floods to Sea Level Rise, Human-Induced Climate Crisis Is Severely Disrupting Earth
We continue to discuss the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which details the damage of climate change already underway around the world and warns that much worse is yet to come unless governments drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The report tallies the losses from human-induced climate change “in an absolutely scientifically verifiable…
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Climate Finance in the UNFCCC Negotiations: Bridging Gaps with Lessons Learnt
Climate finance debate being present in the centre stage of global negotiations for decades only deepens its importance as a global issue. Along with the inherent difficulty to address it because of a lack of a proper definition, climate finance debate has taken its turns through various challenging discourses. Regardless of these, there have been…