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Rethinking adaptation
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Satkhira, Bangladesh Part I: Multiple initiatives by a female-led organisation
In Satkhira, Bangladesh, local grassroots organisations are raising awareness and extending essential services to communities to tackle the compounding effects of COVID-19 and cyclone Amphan. Sohanur Rahman reports This is the sixteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Satkhira is a coastal district in the southwest…
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We need to be innovative when developing Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Plan
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries are supposed to develop their respective National Adaptation Plan (NAP) according to a prescribed format provided by international experts. Many countries have already embarked on preparing their NAPs for some time, but Bangladesh has only just started its own. It is now imperative…
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Sharing Adaptation Failure to Improve Adaptation Outcomes
Sharing lessons is critical for ensuring that finite funding for climate change adaptation is deployed in ways that provide the most value and impact. Successes are celebrated, but failures are habitually obscured, leaving a major knowledge base untapped. This commentary calls for the urgent sharing of failures as a source of critical learning. [btn btnlink=”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.002″…
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Online Course on Urban Resilience and Liveability
This course provides a sound interdisciplinary introduction to the basic understanding of Urban Resilience and Liveability, their inter-relationship as well as perspectives and variances and how people and the environment have connected them. Following the completion of this course, the participants will know How urban resilience impacts the liveability and quality of life in cities…
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I (don’t) want to live here! Exploring perceptions of liveability in Bangladesh
[clear] What makes people prefer one place over another? Liveability is a popular topic, but smaller cities are still left unexplored. Istiakh Ahmed from the International Centre for Climate Change and Development wonders what residents in coastal Bangladesh consider a liveable, even loveable city. “Living in Dhaka has become impossible; this city is not liveable…
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Bangladeshi youth can carve a new path for the Global Youth Adaptation Network
Last week, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon jointly launched the new South Asian Regional office of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA). This was followed by the launch of the GCA’s flagship Global Youth Adaptation Network (YAN) by Saima Wajed Hossain, who is the thematic ambassador for Vulnerability of the…
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Rethinking Nature: A Pathway towards Sustainable Development?
Nature and people are closely interconnected but our current approaches and actions to speed up economic growth are harming nature. Rapid industrialization, unplanned urbanization, and excessive resource utilization are rapidly changing the quality of our ecosystems and, of course, changing our climate. To ensure sustainable, healthy societies we need to learn from nature and incorporate…
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Isiolo County, Kenya: Local Radio Stations Aid in Creating Awareness on COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence
In Isiolo County, in the former Eastern Province of Kenya, ethnic women are disseminating awareness-related information on COVID-19 and gender-based violence through the use of local radio stations. David Nangaa Silakan reports This is the fifteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Isiolo County is home…
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Bangladesh takes another step towards tackling global climate change
During July last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted the Global Commission on Adaptation meeting in Dhaka attended by the co-chairs of the Commission, former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and Kristalina Georgiva, head of the International Monetary Fund. During the bilateral discussion between the Prime Minister and Ban Ki-moon, she offered…
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Kunni Kharka, Nepal: The Plight of Dalit Communities during an Unprecedented Crisis
In Kunni Kharka, Nepal, a Dalit community is using collective savings and strengthening community bonds to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Naresh Kumar Shreshtha reports. This is the fourteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Dalits, also known as the “Untouchables”, are subjected to caste-based discrimination in…