Category: Climate Tribune
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Early warning systems to reduce loss and damage in riverine char communities in Bangladesh
Early warning systems and their transformational approach to saving lives
Practical Action has been working on flood risk management for many years and is interested to explore with local people what can be done to reduce the losses and damages as a result of flooding hitting the poorest, and the most vulnerable communities in Bangladesh. In 2018, we started working with the flood vulnerable communities…
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Through the looking glass
Global goal on adaptation
One of the pillars of the Paris agreement is the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), which is addressed in Article 7.1 the GGA aims at “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate response in the context of the temperature…
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Water resilience through locally led adaptation
How do we make the business unusual the new normal?
Interventions to address climate adaptation have been a stepping stone to tackling climate change, especially for the least developing countries (LDCs). The current intervention programs aim to build the resilience of local communities to climate shocks, and ultimately their well-being by helping them to better prepare, adapt and recover. Yet the current evaluation frameworks used…
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Possibilities of participatory visual research methods
A commentary from Bangladesh and Indian Sundarbans
The visual methods embedded in the Bangladesh and Indian Sundarbans seek to sketch issues of vivencia (lived experiences) representing climate change, uncertainty, and transformative actions in South Asia. Through these participatory visual action research techniques are told from the vantage points of women, youth islanders, and through children’s paintings, these methods tell mundane stories of…
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Addressing loss and damage is an equity and justice issue
Our political leaders can no longer ignore that we live in the era of Loss & Damage and extreme climate impacts necessarily represent the organization’s mission and program priorities
As the third pillar of action under the Paris Agreement, efforts to address Loss and Damage have been primarily framed as a politically divisive yet technically focused domain in the climate regime. In reality, it is the very essence of climate justice based on the economic and non-economic damages disproportionately suffered by communities, particularly in…
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Climate vulnerable nations stand up to mobilize funding facilities for Loss and Damage
Let 2022 be the year when the issue of L&D from human-induced climate change is recognized with utmost urgency and importance
Loss and damage from human induced climate change has been around as early as 1991, when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) called for a mechanism that would help to compensate countries affected by the rise in sea levels. Despite its long lingering history, why does the issue of L&D stand out in today’s…
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Losses and damages in a climate changed world
Researchers and actors in the policy discourse need to recognize how personal and traumatic loss and damage is in many cases
Loss and damage from anthropogenic climate change is now a rapidly expanding debate on climate justice and injustices. The strong currents of discussion at COP26 in Glasgow last year were mostly below the surface of the formal negotiations. The loss and damage debate has moved on and holds that there is no longer room for…
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Loss and Damage, what’s next from Scotland?
If the world is to tackle the worst impacts of climate change then progress must be made at a much quicker pace
For too long the issue of addressing Loss and Damage has remained in the margins of climate negotiations. The Warsaw International Mechanism and the Santiago Network have begun to assist with knowledge exchange and capacity building, yet distinct finance for addressing Loss and Damage has remained largely off the table while progress was made at…
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Taking a human rights-based approach to understand climate-induced displacement in Bangladesh
“I never preferred to migrate to the city, but the disaster, the poverty pushed me towards the city. But the city that saved me from starvation never gave peace.”- Yeasmin Begum (30) used to live at Miar Char village of Badaghat south union of Sumanganj district of Sylhet division. She migrated to Dhaka due to…
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Mobilizing youth for better tomorrow
Incorporating young people in the fight against climate change can have a profound impact
Youth can be recognized as resources and competent citizens in their own right, rather than as problematic or passive recipients of services. In adult-dominated processes, tokenistic treatment of a few youth members fails to recognize youth as assets with meaningful contributions to offer. Providing young people with significant opportunities to engage in decision-making processes,…
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The 2nd Gobeshona Global Conference
A growing platform for knowledge about climate change and potential solutions
GOBESHONA is an innovative knowledge platform for climate change researchers in Bangladesh formed by Dr Saleemul Huq in 2014 to work on building the capacity to adapt to climate change. This platform aims to bring together the national and international research communities to encourage sharing, enhance the quality of research, and, in doing so, make…