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Covid-19 and climate change
Using the lessons from one crisis to deal with the next oneThe Covid-19 pandemic is still making its way around the world and it will be some time before it is over. Nevertheless, even at this early stage, there are some lessons that can be drawn on regarding how best to be prepared to deal with the much bigger problem of climate change impacts which will…
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Prof. Saleemul Huq’s message on COVID-19
Message from Prof. Saleemul Huq on ICCCAD’S Activities under COVID-19 #WFH #StayHomeStaySafe
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Fourth Annual National Conference on Urban Resilience to Climate Change
Bangladesh has been experiencing rapid growth in urban population for the last few decades. This growth follows an imbalanced spatial distribution, mostly directed towards Dhaka- the capital city. More than 60 percent of Bangladesh’s urban population is concentrated in four major cities: Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, and Rajshahi. By 2035, nearly 110 million people are expected…
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOUTHThe transformational force behind climate movements
The Climate Change Emergency has been declared first by the youth, led by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and her Fridays for Future movement of school children striking every Friday to urge leaders to treat climate change as a truly global emergency. The global outbreak of coronavirus is demonstrating to all of us that we live…
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After 30 years of negotiations, where next on the climate crisis? In conversation with Saleemul Huq.
Click this Link to listen this interview. I sat down recently with Saleemul Huq, a scientist and activist who has attended every single global negotiation on climate change since 1992. Saleem is Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh and Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) in London. We…
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MoU Signing Ceremony between ICCCAD and Foreign Services Academy
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Signing between Foreign Service Academy (FSA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh And International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Foreign Service Academy (FSA) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development…
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Protecting the environment should be everyone’s concern
The Bangladesh parliament, led by the parliamentary standing committee on environment, recently declared a planetary emergency in Bangladesh. This is ground breaking in that most other parliaments around the world have declared a climate change emergency, but none have also added a biodiversity emergency as the Bangladesh parliament has. So ours is a twin track…
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Can Bangladesh become a knowledgeable economy?
Over the next decade, there are going to be four mega global trends that all countries in the world will have to deal with. The first is the global impacts of human induced climate change which will be felt in all countries both rich and poor. While efforts to keep global mean temperature below 1.5…
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Tackling global climate change
The year 2020 is going to be remembered for a long time to come as being a pivotal year in the global war against human induced climate change. This new decade will be crucial in determining whether or not we will be able to successfully tackle what is morphing from a climate change problem into…
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COP25 mistakes must not be repeated in Glasgow
The 25th annual Conference of Parties (COP25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in November 2019 in Madrid, Spain under the presidency of Chile, since the political conditions in Santiago, Chile were not conducive to holding the conference there. Unfortunately, COP25 went into overtime by two days and nights…
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Capacity Building day at COP25
The third Capacity-Building day, a thematic day under the side event of second Capacity-Building Hub at the 25th Conference of Parties was held on 04 December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The Capacity-Building Hub event had seven different thematic days, starting with the Capacity-Building Day. The aim of the daylong event was to highlight innovative solutions…
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Capturing the demographic dividend while tackling climate change
Bangladesh, quite rightly, has aspirations to meet the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the Climate Change goals by 2030, and then to graduate into being a middle income country by 2041. It is commonly acknowledged that the key to achieving both these goals lies in educating and empowering the young girls and…