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Measuring the global goal on climate change adaptation -Bangladesh’s contribution to the upcoming debate at COP24
In the Paris Agreement on climate change, which was agreed on in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries agreed to take actions to tackle climate change through both mitigation (to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases) and adaptation (to cope with…
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Introduction to The Circular Economy
There is today a wide scientific consensus on the existence of global warming, driven by the increased Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (due to historic human activities) and concentration in the atmosphere. The latest IPCC 1.5°C Special report, released a couple of weeks ago in October 2018, made a clear statement that the world need to…
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Challenges for the new Global Commission for Adaptation
Last week in the Hague, the Netherlands a new Global Commission for Adaptation to Climate Change was launched with the former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and Kristalina Georgieva, head of the World Bank as the three heads. There are also a number of governments supporting the new Commission, including…
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We found best climate budget stories from ‘Role of Media in relation to Climate Finance’
The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) with support from the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme organized a two-day long training workshop entitled ‘Training on Climate Budgeting in Bangladesh’ for young journalists and budget activists from September 18th to 19th, 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This training workshop brought together a group of…
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It’s worse than we thought
The United Nation’s scientific body on climate change, namely the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has just released a special report which is a scientific as well as political report of great significance and could be a game-changer in galvanising enhanced action to tackle climate change. The report has a controversial history. The consensus…
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Achieving complete renewable energy reliance -Vulnerable countries leading the way again
Ten years ago, under the leadership of then President Nasheed of the Maldives, the leaders of the most vulnerable developing countries came together to form the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). The countries in the CVF, which included Bangladesh as a founding member, were from Asia, Africa and Latin America and belonged to different negotiating groups…
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A half degree difference
What global warming may mean for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta It may take centuries for us to discern the slow onset consequences of sea-level rise — impacts that will be felt long after our lifetimes. While rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere will slow sea-level rise, by no means will it erase the already…
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Crafting the Paris Rulebook
Implementing the Paris Agreement The history of the UN climate process begins in 1992 when the global community adopted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This eventually led to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which required developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. However, in 2015, the Paris Agreement was adopted providing…
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Talking solutions -Book offers new capacity building frameworks to combat climate change impacts
Lack of proper frameworks to address challenges of climate change and how to analyze them has been glaringly missing from the past capacity building initiatives by development partners across the globe, particularly after the Paris Agreement which established the Paris Committee on Capacity Building under Article 11. Under this scenario, the world’s wealthiest nations have…
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Road to Katowice
Are we prepared enough with the uneven progress made in bangkok climate talks? The resumed 48th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 48-2) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 48-2) as well as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-6) took place from September 4-9, 2018,…
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Costs of climate change
Time to set up a global fund to pay for loss and damage from climate change The issue of Loss and Damage from Climate Change has been a politically sensitive topic in the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as developed countries have seen it as opening the way for…
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How long-term planning can work
Bangladesh has a strong tradition of medium term planning through the periodic Five Year Plans, of which we are now in the 7th Plan. At the same time, the country has a large number of professional planners both within the Planning Commission as well as embedded within the Planning Department of every ministry who help…