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‘It is not easy, but one cannot give up’
A conversation from COP27 on inclusive locally led adaptation. When it comes to climate change adaptation in affected communities, top-down approaches where international- and national-level decision-makers drive interventions do not work. In recognition of this, efforts to promote locally led adaptation (LLA) have been growing steadily and in August 2022, over 100 organisations endorsed eight…
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Does WASH Infrastructures conforms to Nature Based Solutions? An exploration of FSTP at Shakhipur
The report highlights challenges and achievements, potential avenues to expand our existing Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) at Shakipur which was recognized by the Bangladesh Government in the 8th FYP. WaterAid undertook this study in collaboration with International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NBS-Report_Shakhipur_0_compressed.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#3f9e0c” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]The Full Publication is available…
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SALEEMUL HUQ: Climate revolutionary
This climate researcher from Bangladesh helped to force wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. In the final hours before the close of last month’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt, exhausted delegates slumped on sofas outside the formal meeting rooms. But not Saleemul Huq, who was sitting upright, rapidly…
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ALL ACT now! Progressing locally led action on loss and damage
Countries and communities are exposed to increasingly harmful effects of climate change, leading to loss and damage. These concerns must be urgently addressed, especially in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). After decades of lobbying by LDCs, SIDS and others, the world has woken up to this situation, and negotiators at…
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What Bangladesh must do now as a global climate leader
The recent agreement by all countries to establish a new fund for loss and damage from human-induced climate change at COP27 was a simple recognition of an unfortunate reality that has existed for a long time. The reality is that the impacts that are now scientifically attributable to global temperature rise are now happening every…
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Managing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Foundations for Policymakers
Training Manual: NAP and NDC Support Programme International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and AMBERO Consulting, Germany in collaboration with GIZ have developed a training manual on “Managing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Foundations for Policymakers” under the NAP NDC Support Programme commissioned by BMZ. A total of 12 training modules have been developed…
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Changing with the Tides of Change: A Women’s Group Journey towards Climate Resilience
In Kyamulibwa sub-county, Kalungu district, Uganda, we meet Beatrice Nakiweewa, who leads a women’s group to grow vegetables to use in their catering business impacted by climate change. This is the sixth of the ‘Voices from the Frontline (Phase-II)’ stories by ICCCAD and GRP. In 2021 Twezimbe Women’s Group in Kyamulibwa sub-county, Kalungu district, Uganda…
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Loss and Damage fund established at COP27: what happens next?
Saleemul Huq, one of the most persistent long-term advocates of a ‘loss and damage’ fund on climate change, explores the origins and potential of the breakthrough at the recent COP. For thirty years the vulnerable developing countries led by the small island states had been demanding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
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Water Security in Secondary Cities of Bangladesh: A case of Mongla
The water crisis issue in informal settlements should be looked through a lens of System of Provision (SoP), which aims to ensure inclusive urban settlements and strengthen central water system for secondary cities like Mongla and promote social awareness.” [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WaterSecurity_case_of_mongla_RAPID_27-November.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#3f9e0c” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download and Read this Article[/btn] About the Authors: Khandker Tarin…
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The story behind the loss and damage fund at COP27
COP27 ended a day overtime on November 20 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt with the historic achievement of a new fund for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries. Today, I want to tell the story of how this was achieved. The demand for rich countries to shoulder their responsibility for historic pollution – which…
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COP27: Historic shift towards loss and damage financing
The UN climate talks COP27, which closed in Egypt on Saturday, started addressing the symptoms of the climate crisis in a breakthrough decision for the most vulnerable. A historic progress was made with a commitment to set up a financial support structure for the most vulnerable to deal with “loss and damage” caused by the…
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COP27: A historic shift towards setting-up a loss and damage financial structure
COP27 process represents a historic moment for loss and damage (L&D) since this is the first time the issue was adopted into the agenda and approved in the same year and am not sure if this has ever been the case within any UN negotiating process, said Saber H Chowdhury, president of the Parliamentary Standing…