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Dr. Saleemul Huq’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok
Watch! Dr. Saleemul Huq’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok. The ESCAP Second Regional Workshop: Innovative climate finance mechanisms for financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region took place from 6 March to 7 March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
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Climate change, environmental stress and loss of livelihoods can push people towards illegal activities: a case study from coastal Bangladesh
This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people’s livelihood options in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. We argue that environmental stressors such as cyclones, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and floods have negative impacts on people’s lives by reducing their livelihood options. Twelve in-depth interviews (Livelihood Histories) and twelve Focus Group Discussions (FGD) based…
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Students Play Central Role in First Columbia World Project
“I will never forget those voices and those faces sitting in front of me,” Sarah Johnson, a student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), said over coffee at a campus café recently, as she described a meeting she had with a group of elderly rice farmers in the Charlands of western Bangladesh this past…
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A talking point for COP25 -A realistic approach needed to fund loss and damage from climate change
The topic of loss and damage from human-induced climate change has been a highly politically sensitive issue in international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for many years with vulnerable developing countries, including Bangladesh, arguing in its favour and the rich countries arguing against it. In recent years, there have…
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Zero Hunger – Zero Emissions Project findings
Report on ICCCAD’s Learning Hub Event (LHE) about “Zero Hunger – Zero Emissions Project findings” held in August 2018. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LHE_ZHZE_13_09_2018.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download[/btn] Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LHE_ZHZE_13_09_2018.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download[/btn]
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Why we should set our sights on climate diplomacy
Over the last two decades, the issue of global climate change has shifted from being primarily an environmental issue to a global security and diplomatic issue as well. Hence many countries have shifted responsibility from the ministry of environment to the foreign ministry as the focal ministry to handle the issue. This is also a…
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International Trend of Renewable Energy: Focusing on the Cases of South Asia and Bangladesh
Report on ICCCAD’s Learning Hub Event (LHE) about “International Trend of Renewable Energy: Focusing on the Cases of South Asia and Bangladesh” held in January 2019. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LHE_24_01_19_Report_ICCCAD.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download[/btn] Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LHE_24_01_19_Report_ICCCAD.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B”…
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ROHINGYA CRISIS- Environmental challenges that can’t be ignored
It is now well over a year since nearly 700,000 Rohingyas were forced out of Myanmar and Bangladesh opened its borders to them and gave them shelter in the Cox’s Bazar region. The immediate emergency period is coming to an end and the government of Bangladesh as well as all the international and national agencies…
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Climate change, a global security threat -Early action is needed to avoid worst case scenario
In the last week of January, the United Nations Security Council in New York held a special session on climate change as a global security threat. It was not the first time such a session had been held but it was by far a much more alarmist session as we now acknowledge that human-induced climate…
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Imagining alternative futures
Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to assume that the future will follow much the same trajectory as the past. Imagining alternative futures can be dismissed as dreaming, or science fiction. And…
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Aligning climate plans for a greater impact
Bangladesh has a long tradition of national development planning under the aegis of the General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission, through the seven Five Year Plans prepared since we became an independent country. Recently, there have been a number of additional types of planning which will need to be well-aligned if we wish…
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Bangladesh starts its journey towards climate resilience
At the beginning of January 2019 Bangladesh started to take the required steps to become a climate resilient country by 2030 by achieving transformational adaptation to climate change impacts. While there are many strands to fulfil this important strategy, one of the first is to generate, disseminate and use good quality scientific knowledge so that…