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Women’s Group Boosts Resilience in the Face of Crisis
Mama Jobe Jeng is a farmer in The Gambia’s west coast region and member of the local organisation Tresor Women Warrior. She recounts how belonging to the group has strengthened her ability to cope with COVID-19 and argues that the government should support women’s groups with resources and information in order to shore up community…
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Bangladesh can share crucial knowledge on locally led adaptation
Last week, Bangladesh formally took over the leadership of the group of nearly 50 countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) for the next two years. The governance of the CVF is through a Troika system, with the current chair and the two previous chairs making collective decisions. Thus, the Minister of Marshall Islands as…
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Bangladeshi Farmers Respond to COVID-19 with Innovation and Sustainability
Prakritik Krishi Biponon Kendra implemented a transparent supply chain for organic food products by sourcing directly from farmers in 13 locations in Bangladesh and delivering the produce to the homes of more than 200 families in the capital, Dhaka. When COVID-19 hit, this supply chain was disrupted. Like elsewhere across Bangladesh, the livelihoods of the…
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Loss and damage from natural disasters made worse by climate change
Bangladesh can lead the way in discussing reparations at climate conferences
As Bangladesh assumes the leadership of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) for the next two years, including at the next Conference of Parties (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021, there is an opportunity for Bangladesh to push for the issue of loss and damage from climate change to be made a…
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Nature-based Solutions: An Opportunity to Rethink Development Pathway in Bangladesh
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] This blog is part of ICCCAD Blog Series for World Environment Day 2020. It is an insightful collection of discussion which encompasses the debate between nature and development. Furthermore, it dwells on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as a holistic approach to tackle environmental and societal challenges as well as opportunities for Bangladesh in…
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Lockdown slum style
Sheela Patel answers key questions surrounding the impact of COVID-19 on informal settlements. [quotes quotes_style=”bpull” quotes_pos=”center”] Only through the circulation of information and dialogues, will there be an ability to address the unknown. [/quotes] “There are no protocols or procedures to address the issues of the informal settlements”, says SDI’s Sheela Patel giving us a…
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Dealing with the triple emergency
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] This article was initially published on Daily Star on June 3rd, 2020, it has been republished as part of ICCCAD Blog Series for World Environment Day 2020. This article reiterates the importance of preserving the natural system especially the Sundarbans as the mangrove forest has once again during cyclone Amphan played a…
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Reconstructing the Deconstructed: A Remarriage of Economics and Nature
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] This blog is part of ICCCAD Blog Series for World Environment Day 2020. It is a brief story of the relationship between economics and nature in historical perspective – how modern economics evolved from the laws of nature, then severed its relationship largely under neoclassical economics and how it is being repaired…
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Protecting the planet and people: National-International dimensions and Local perspectives of conserving biodiversity
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] This blog is part of ICCCAD Blog Series for World Environment Day 2020. It briefs on the legal frameworks undertaken for conserving biodiversity since the 1990s along with the crucial relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In addition, it also sheds light on biodiversity from…
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Voices from the Frontline- joint initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN
As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world with unfolding health, economic and social impacts, grassroots communities are developing their own coping mechanisms in the face of the crisis. It is important to capture and document these stories in real time as the world faces up to an even longer term challenge of climate change. Voices…
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Dealing with the triple emergency
In the last few weeks, the world has been having to deal with the double emergency of the pandemic as well as climate change, while Bangladesh and West Bengal had to deal with a triple emergency, with super cyclone Amphan hitting us quite badly. Unfortunately, such multiple emergencies are no longer going to be rare…