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CBA11 closing speeches by Saleemul Huq
Closing speech of Dr. Saleemul Huq on 11th international conference on Community based adaptation (CBA11) at Kampala,Uganda where over 300 participants from over fifty countries can participate.
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Tackling climate change
Now that the challenge of tackling global climate change has been universally accepted by all countries and people (with the notable exception of Mr Trump and his cronies in the White House and Federal US government) through the Paris Agreement, it is important for all countries, companies, NGOs, universities and other relevant stakeholders to share…
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The world’s newest development bank won’t fund coal
Bangladesh should take note The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB,) the world’s newest development bank, held its Annual Meeting in South Korea earlier this week and agreed on a new energy strategy. Leadership at the bank also issued statements noting they would not be investing in coal. AIIB’s Vice President Thierry de Longuemar also confirmed…
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Closing Session on 6th Annual ICCCAD-IIED Short Course on Urban Climate Change
Closing Session on 6th Annual ICCCAD-IIED Short Course on Urban Climate Change [layerslider id=”7″] Short Course on Urban Climate Change (6th Annual Short Course on Urban Climate Change ICCCAD-IIED)
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Bangladesh reacts to US withdrawal from Paris climate accord
Bangladesh reacts to US withdrawal from Paris climate accord
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A Climate Scientist Speaks Out Saleemul Huq – NHK World Direct Talk
The Bangladeshi scientist Dr. Saleemul Huq is a key advisor to the countries which are most vulnerable to global warming. He is uniquely qualified to warn how climate change is transforming the planet.
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Trump will make the US face loss and damage claims
Since the announce-ment by President Trump that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, he has been facing a whirlwind of push backs and rejection by all the 195 countries who are parties to the Paris Agreement (only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign it), and it looks like the…
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How Bangladesh can achieve SDG 13 and climate change goals
At the turn of the century, under the United Nations, all countries agreed to try to achieve a set of ten Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Bangladesh was relatively successful at achieving most of them. Since then, all countries have negotiated and agreed upon a set of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be…
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Backtracking on the Paris Agreement
The US withdrawal might not be such a bad thing after all During his campaign for the US presidency, Donald Trump had said that he believed that human induced climate change was a Chinese hoax, and promised that he would “tear up” the Paris Agreement if he became president. Since taking office, he has put…
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Are the haor floods caused by climate change?
The haor basin in the northeastern part of Bangladesh is currently experiencing severe flash floods, causing considerable hardship to people, and destroying crops and other infrastructure. Some people are asking if this flood can be attributed to human-induced climate change. Firstly, it is important to distinguish weather events (like rains, cyclones and floods, etc.) from…
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The power of thinking small and solar
Is it the time to think big, again? Can only mega projects catch the country’s attention and lead Bangladesh to becoming a middle income country? On the road to 2021, the Government of Bangladesh has declared, among many other goals, to reach universal electrification (currently somewhere between 62-75 percent, and a matter of heated debates)…
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Time to go back to the drawing board
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Apart of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, agreed in 2015, was the pledge by developed countries to provide a minimum of USD 100 billion a year from 2020 onwards, to assist developing countries tackle climate change through both mitigation and adaptation. They also created a new funding body called…