(This article was originally published here) People living in the coastal areas of Bangladesh are hit especially hard by disasters such as cyclones, flash floods, erratic rainfall, and salinity intrusion. These adverse effects of climate change are making their hard and complicated lives even harder and more complicated. However, through conserving ecosystems and carrying out appropriate innovative solutions, these communities …

(This article has originally published on rtcc.org and can be found here) This year marked the tenth anniversary of hurricane Katrina that had devastating consequences on New Orleans and the entire Gulf coast of the United States. The event killed at least 986, displaced up to 600,000 for over a month, and caused an estimated USD $135 billion in damages. Seven …

(This article has been originally published on The Daily Star and can be accessed here) Over the last two decades the topic of climate change has gone through an evolution in thinking both at the global level as well as in Bangladesh. Global narrative would broadly categorise the global climate change narrative as having gone through two phases already and being …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh in collaboration with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a Public Lecture on ‘Contemporary Global Climate Change Debate: Challenges and Prospect’ on Monday, 16 March, 2015 at  IUB’s Permanent Campus, in Bashundhara, Dhaka. Sir David King, Climate Change Envoy, UK, was the Key note Speaker. …

(This article has been originally published on The Daily Star, available here) The 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended in Lima, Peru almost 36 hours after the official closing with the adoption of the ” Lima Call for Climate Action”. This sets up the final round of detailed negotiations leading …

The Resilience Academy 2015 in Bangladesh and the Resilience Academy 2016 in Germany will produce, combine and share knowledge about enhancing livelihood resilience to minimize loss and damage. “Enhancing Resilience to minimize Loss and Damage – Providing Knowledge for the UNFCCC”Loss and damage is an emerging topic in climate change negotiations, research, policy and implementation of climate change action, and …

(This article was originally published on Dhaka Tribune, available here) Going into the Lima talks, there was a great sense of optimism buoyed by the successful climate change summit held by the UN secretary general in September and with the many hundreds of thousands of marchers in New York and many other cities around the world. This was followed closely with the historic agreement by …

Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD is currently in Lima attending COP20 running from 1-12 December 2014. He will be providing regular video logs from there, the links to which will be posted here. You can also find the videos on IIED’s YouTube site. He will also be providing his views on his Twitter. For more information, visit here. Day 1   …

(This article was originally published on Elders.org, available here) The twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in Lima, Peru over the next twelve days, marks well over two decades of global negotiations to tackle the problem of human induced climate change. Significantly for me, it is also the twentieth …

(This article was originally published on IIED.org, available here). As last month’s fourth conference on Climate Change and Development showed, Africa will need strong leaders such as Fatima Denton – who will deliver IIED’s 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture on Thursday – to tackle the issues of climate change.   The fourth conference on Climate Change and Development held in Marrakech, …