Category: Blog
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2020: the year to get money where it matters
More new initiatives, such as the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Locally Led Adaptation Action Track, are beginning to recognise the critical role of poor and marginalised people in tackling the climate emergency. From the Gobeshona conference, Andrew Norton and Saleemul Huq explain why a reimagined climate finance system that gets money into the hands of…
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Turning Challenge into Opportunity: The Upcoming Bangladeshi Climate Migration Crisis
Last month, I had the chance to stay in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. I could clearly witness the demographic boom happening in an already land and resource scarce overpopulated city. Having worked there for a local research centre, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and having experienced local living conditions, I…
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ENACTS Climate Data Initiative Officially Launches in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society have launched a new data service that provides national users short-term climate and weather forecast information for decision making. The Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) initiative helps countries overcome significant gaps in their historical climate records by an innovative combination of…
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Researching Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution
Rebecca Eldon one of our Visiting Researchers shares her story. Researching Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution Since my first visit to Bangladesh, the country has stood out to me as one of the most unique places in the world. There is incredible beauty, seen both in the population’s love for art and culture, and in the…
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FROM ISLAND TO SLUM: BANGLADESH’S QUIET DISPLACEMENT CRISIS
Sitting on a plastic chair inside a small brick house in Cox’s Bazar, the light from the evening sun shining on his tired face, 70 year-old Mahmud* recalls the day when a five-metre tidal wave engulfed his home and land on Kutubdia island, killing his wife and two sons. The ‘1991 cyclone’ was one of the…
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Students Play Central Role in First Columbia World Project
“I will never forget those voices and those faces sitting in front of me,” Sarah Johnson, a student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), said over coffee at a campus café recently, as she described a meeting she had with a group of elderly rice farmers in the Charlands of western Bangladesh this past…
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Imagining alternative futures
Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to assume that the future will follow much the same trajectory as the past. Imagining alternative futures can be dismissed as dreaming, or science fiction. And…
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Bangladesh launched a book entitled: The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building
Speaking at a colourful event graced by the Minister of Environment and Climate, the Minister mentioned that this book “The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building” will obviously steer debates on the subject of climate change capacity building under the Paris Agreement. "it is now time for Bangladesh to carryout rigorous evidence based research…
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MoU signing between ICCCAD and SREDA
The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) took place in Chandana conference room, IEB Building, SREDA Level-9, Ramna, Dhaka- 1000, Bangladesh on the 18th July 2018. The ceremony began with general introductory remarks between the entities…
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Time to transform – and join up – climate adaptation
Adaptation to climate change is well underway. Now it’s time to make it add up to something bigger Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, all countries must set goals for their efforts to adapt to climate impacts – something that will be taken up at the next climate talks in Poland in December. When…
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Exploring the association of mortality and weather in rural Bangladesh
Sarah Moody one of our Visiting Researchers shares her story. In 2017 I began a bachelors of science in Global Health at Imperial College London, this was my first academic venture into the wider determinants of health. At Imperial I was introduced to the impacts of climate change on health in some initial lectures. These sparked my…
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Understanding the Demands for Climate Services of Coastal Farming Communities of Bangladesh
Saleh Ahmed one of our Visiting Researchers shares his Experience. Understanding the Demands for Climate Services in Coastal Farming Communities of Bangladesh By-Saleh Ahmed Anomalies in weather and climate patterns are increasingly evident in many parts of the world, and the people of Bangladesh are experiencing those first hand. While the entire country is exposed to…