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Non-economic loss and damage: closing the knowledge gap
Climate-related loss and damage is escalating, with many countries experiencing new forms of climate impact, of increasing intensity. The focus until now has been on calculating the economic repercussions of climate risk. Its wider impacts and resulting hidden costs of climate change — such as loss of cultural heritage — are less understood and harder…
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Months of persistent action: Kamarkhali’s fight to save their village from riverbank erosion
In the north-central region of Bangladesh, Shebika Shangma along with six other people mobilizes the local community to build embankment to protect their village from riverbank erosion. This is the eighth of the ‘Voices from the Frontline (Phase-II)’ stories by ICCCAD and GRP. The Indian Meghalaya region is commonly called the rainiest place on earth.…
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Loss & Damage Finance
After COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 funding to address Loss and Damage started outside the UNFCCC initiated by Scotland. Then in 2022 many other governments and Foundations also started funding outside the UNFCCC. At COP27 in Egypt in November 2022 the historic decision to establish a funding scheme within the UNFCCC. Moving towards COP28 to…
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The case for a values-based understanding of loss and damage
The loss and damage conversation largely centres around the economics of climate impacts. Losses and damages which are difficult to value on a monetary scale are termed ‘non-economic losses and damages’, often left out of the equation, and often misunderstood. Moreover, there is a limited appreciation of the connections between what is deemed economic…
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A low-carbon and hunger-free future for Bangladesh: An exante assessment of synergies and trade-offs in different transition pathways
Feeding and nourishing a growing global population in Bangladesh is a major challenge in a changing climate. A multi-level participatory scenario approach with corresponding modeling and decision support tools is developed and applied to support decision-makers in developing scenario-guided enabling policy for food security in the future under climate change. The results presented in this…
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Sundarbans, Bangladesh: Locally-led mangrove nursery brings ecological and economic benefits in a changing climate
In the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh, we meet Nomita Mondol, who established a locally led mangrove nursery to deal with the impacts of climate change. This is the seventh of the ‘Voices from the Frontline (Phase-II)’ stories by ICCCAD and GRP. The Sundarbans, located in the Southwest region of Bangladesh, is the single largest mangrove forest…
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Overview of the Locally-led Adaptation Programme of ICCCAD
It is critical to capacitate the local communities and institutions; utilize their existing local and traditional knowledge; and aid them to take leadership roles to adapt to the climate crisis strategically. This video gives an overview of the Locally-led Adaptation Programme of ICCCAD, which began in 2021, supported by IIED.
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Reflections on the climate change actions of 2022
The year 2022 was indeed a critical year for tackling climate change at global, national, and local levels. Let me start at the personal level by acknowledging two major events for me. The first was at the beginning of 2022 when I was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the British Government…
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Year end 2022 message from Prof Saleemul Huq
Recap 2022 and New year’s greetings from Prof Saleemul Huq.
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Bangladesh takes another step in leading global climate adaptation
On December 11, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally launched the new Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) in Dhaka along with the foreign minister and environment minister, and Ban Ki-Moon, head of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA). The new Global Hub on LLA will be located in the Dhaka office of the GCA,…
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Prof Saleemul Huq named one of Nature’s 10 people who helped shape science in 2022
Bangladeshi scientist Professor Saleemul Huq has made it to the coveted list of people who helped shape the biggest science stories of 2022. Saleemul Huq, a climate researcher, has been recognised for his role in forcing wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. The list prepared by Nature – one…