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The era of loss and damage from climate change is upon usWe must act immediately if we are to avert its worst impacts
Over the last week of July 2021, we all watched on our TV screens as the heat dome and wildfires in north-western US and Canada took many lives and destroyed the town of Lytton in Canada. Then, the devastating floods in Germany and Belgium cost several hundred lives, followed by more loss of lives from…
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Pattachitra ‘We have to survive fighting various disasters’
Pattachitra (traditional scroll performance) by the group Jubo Shilpigoshthi in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh, on preparing and responding to disasters. To know more about the project visit: https://steps-centre.org/project/tapestry/
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Delivery of climate finance will be the key to COP26
The upcoming 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November, with the United Kingdom as the host. The incoming COP26 President designate Alok Sharma has rightly said that the delivery of the “totemic 100 billion US Dollar” in climate…
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Recording | ICCCAD and IUB E-Lecture Series -Abu Sumon (part-1)
LECTURE ON “Climate Public Finance Management 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 its third webinar on July 26th, 2021. Abu Sumon, a Climate Change specialist presented first part of his two-part lecture series.…
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OPINION: The era of loss and damage from climate change is upon us
As extreme weather worsens, what can Germany and other disaster-hit countries learn from well-prepared at-risk nations like Bangladesh? Sitting in Dhaka, Bangladesh I have been glued to my TV watching the heart-rending loss of so many lives and so much property due to the horrendous flash floods in Germany over the last few days. My…
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Vulnerable countries take the lead in tackling climate change
Last week, Bangladesh hosted the climate finance summit called by the nearly 50 vulnerable developing countries that are part of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), which is chaired by Bangladesh for the current two-year term. The summit was moderated by the former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, who is the CVF Ambassador for Ambition,…
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Photobook on Liveability
Liveability of coastal regional cities of Bangladesh Background and Context Is the liveability of a coastal city the same as for an in-land metropolitan city, such as Dhaka? With the aim to explore this question in greater detail, the concept of liveability has been explored in two regional coastal cities in South-West Bangladesh- Mongla and…
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Bangladesh needs to invest in climate diplomacy
As Bangladesh aims to graduate out of Least Developed Country (LDC) status over the next few years and become more intimately involved in various international activities and issues, we need to make tackling climate change a national and diplomatic priority as well. This means that every new Bangladeshi diplomat should have a basic understanding of…
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COP26 Lecture 6 – Perspective of the least developed countries on loss & damage from climate change
The Road to COP 26/CMA 3 Preparatory Lecture Series Watch this recorded lecture via Youtube This is the sixth lecture in the COP26/CMA 3 Preparatory Lecture Series. For more information about this lecture series please visit this link: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/about-us/news/daniel-bodansky-road-to-paris-and-glasgow/
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Building back a greener Bangladesh
The title of this article has been borrowed from an on-line discussion organised by the Policy Research Institute on June 20, 2021. I was a panelist at the event, which some current and former World Bank officials had participated in, together with most of the famous environmental experts of Bangladesh. With its physical and…
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Is a global goal on adaptation possible?
At the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change made at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, all the countries of the world agreed on a global goal on mitigation as well as setting a global goal on adaptation. The global goal on mitigation…