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FACED WITH DEVASTATING CYCLONES, HOW ARE WOMEN IN COASTAL BANGLADESH BUILDING RESILIENCE?
In recent years, cyclones have battered the coastal fringes of Bangladesh, with one following closely after another. In Satkhira district, a combination of tidal flooding, inundation by storm surges, and saltwater intrusion has led to a rise in salinity in groundwater and fresh-water ponds. This is a problem for local people, who mainly make a…
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Covid-19 and climate change: World leaders must tackle both
In past weeks, there have been a number of significant events which may seem unconnected but are actually deeply connected in terms of whether the world is able to successfully come out of the current Covid-19 pandemic and also deal with the looming catastrophe of climate change. The first event was Cyclone Yaas, which hit…
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Can the G7 leaders rise to the occasion?
The leaders of the G7 countries—consisting of the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Italy, France and Germany—will be holding their annual meeting in the UK in the second week of June and have a number of major issues on their agenda, including how to roll out global vaccination against the coronavirus and how to tackle climate…
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Cyclone Amphan
Climate Tribune | May 2021 List of Articles “Where getting drinkable water is an everyday struggle” by Md Ridwan Bin Alam Diganta and Mahmuda Akter “Destruction by Cyclone Amphan continues to haunt its survivors after one year” by Rafiqul Islam Montu “The long-term effects of Cyclone Amphan on the west coast of Bangladesh” by Rafiqul…
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Tackling three global emergencies at once
The world is having to tackle three major emergencies at the same time. The first is obviously the Covid-19 pandemic that is still raging around the world, the second is climate change, which is also getting much worse every year, and finally, there is biodiversity loss, which will mean the loss of up to a…
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STORMS AND RISING SEAS
THE POST-CLIMATE-CHANGE WORLD IS UPON USRead Prof Saleemul Huq’s interview by Karen Thomas [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TE-June2021.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#3f9e0c” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download This Interview[/btn] Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF. Originally this interview was published as a headline interview on June’21 Issue of The Environment magazine
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Now is the time to focus on loss and damage from climate change
The year 2020 will be remembered as not just the year of the pandemic, but also for the experienced human-induced climate change impacts, making loss and damage from those impacts a reality. What this means is that every climate-related hazard such as heatwaves, droughts, floods and cyclones are no longer entirely natural events, but have…
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WASH and Climate – Policy and financing disconnects in Bangladesh
The WASH and climate: Policy and financing (dis) connects in Bangladesh is a report highlighting various gaps and challenges that exist in the climate and WASH policy landscape in Bangladesh. This report was developed as a joint initiative by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and WaterAid Bangladesh. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/WASH-and-Climate-Policy-and-financing-disconnects-in-Bangladesh-31-March-2021.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#3f9e0c”…
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Beyond resilience, we need to prosper in the face of climate change
Last week, I wrote in this daily about the need for Bangladesh to take a “whole of society” approach to international diplomacy on tackling climate change globally, rather than depending on the annual Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which meets only once a year for two…
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Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance
The 2009 pledge to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance to developing nations was not specific on what types of funding could count. Indeterminacy and questionable claims make it impossible to know if developed nations have delivered; as 2020 passes, opportunity exists to address these failures in a new pledge. At…
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Financing loss and damage from slow onset events in developing countries
Based on a systematic review of journal articles, books and book chapters, and policy papers, we evaluate possible sources of finance for addressing loss and damage from slow onset climate events in developing countries. We find that most publications explore insurance schemes which are not appropriate for most slow onset events. From this, we determine…