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It’s time to make polluters pay for climate damages
Comment: As science linking storms like Hurricane Florence and Super Typhoon Mangkhut to climate change strengthens, so does the case for compensating victims In the last few days as Hurricane Florence battered the east coast of the United States of America and Super Typhoon Mangkhut hit Philippines and China an important scientific breakthrough took place. Previously,…
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Gibika Final Research Report
An overview of research findings from the 2013 to 2018 Gibika project. Understanding how environmental stress and climatic changes influence people’s livelihood resilience and lives in Bangladesh. By: Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson Contributing authors: Kees van der Geest and David Wrathall Introduction A climate-resilient and sustainable future for people in vulnerable countries starts with resilient livelihoods. There…
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Thinking outside the box
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 see it as opening the way for claiming compensation from them based on their liability. However, there have been several breakthroughs on the issue…
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Mobilizing Knowledge To Enhance Adaptive Capacity
For over a decade, researchers and policymakers have considered enhancing “adaptive capacity” to be a linchpin of successful adaptation to climate change. In 2015, at the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris, the international community formally asserted the importance of increasing the ability of individuals and groups to adapt to long-term changes in the climate,…
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Loss and damage from a gender equality perspective
A number of factors explain why women are more vulnerable to disasters The resumed 48th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 48-2) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 48-2) on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-6) has started at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand. The negotiation is also…
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Tackling poverty and climate change at the same time
Over the coming decades, at the global level as well as in Bangladesh we will be faced with two major challenges: tackling poverty and climate change. Although at first glance the two issues may not seem to be linked, I will argue that we cannot tackle either without also tackling the other at the same…
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What does Development mean for the Stateless?
New paradigms Currently, there are upwards of one million Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar. For all the talk of moving the Rohingya elsewhere, such as Bashan Char Island, or repatriating them to Myanmar, it is almost certain that they will remain where they are for an indefinite period of time. History has shown that…
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Gimme Shelter
Seeking refuge in a climate vulnerable nation Dr Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh. The interview has been edited for clarity. There is a general belief that climate change will cause mass migrations in the future. Did climate change play any role…
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5 questions with Giorgi Gigauri
Moving towards a humanitarian-development response to the Rohingya refugee crisis Giorgi Gigauri is the Chief of IOM-UN Migration Agency’s mission in Bangladesh. This interview has been edited for clarity. What is IOM’s overall vision for on-going Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh? Our overall vision is basically two-fold. The first is the humanitarian phase. So, before we…
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‘PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE WITH SOME SEMBLANCE OF BASIC DIGNITY’ IN CONVERSATION WITH SUMBUL RIZVI
Sumbul Rizvi is the senior humanitarian coordinator assigned on behalf of the broader humanitarian community to coordinate the response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar. The interview has been edited for clarity. The Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya refugee crisis was launched earlier this year, requiring USD 951 million to provide humanitarian…
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We have crossed the tipping point on climate change
Until now, scientists working on climate change have been talking about the scenarios, forecasts and even predictions of adverse impacts due to human induced climate change that would occur in the future if we failed to prevent it from happening. However, in the last twelve months or so the same scientists have now been saying…
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Bangladesh Academy for Climate Services launched
The academy will be hosted at the Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) The Bangladesh Academy for Climate Services (BACS) has been launched. Environmental experts launched BACS at the conference room of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) in Dhaka on Sunday. Speaking at the event, Director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Dr…