Category: Dhaka Tribune Articles
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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…
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Comprehensive adaptation measures to address climate change impacts
Climate Bridge Fund’s support to enhance climate resilience in slums of selected urban areas in Bangladesh
Among the urban hotspots, Rajshahi and Khulna are two cities where around 76% and 55% of climate migrants live respectively (GIZ, 2019). These destinations of the climate migrants are also vulnerable to climate change related hazards thus the people coming to the cities or those who are already living there are both at the risk…
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COP27: The Governance Challenges for Santiago Network for Loss and Damage
The idea of establishing an implementation arm of Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM), was put forward by the Least Developing Countries (LDCs) at COP25, held in Madrid in 2019. It was quickly accepted by other groups like AOSIS, AGN and AILAC. Hence, G-77 and China moved with the common position to negotiate with the developed country Parties. However,…
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Financing loss and damage: A path to building the bridge
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s premier body for climate science, released two crucial reports in early 2022 under its 6th Assessment Report that confirm what we already know: The climate crisis is an issue of the present and its impacts are already being felt across the world, with the hardest-hitting impacts…
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Home is where the heart is
Statistics concerning climate change often conceal real people with real lives and real losses
Despite loss and damage from human-induced climate change getting attention at COP26, there has been little action to avert, minimize, and address the loss and damage experienced by those bearing the brunt of climate change. Climate change impacts everyone, but people will not all face this challenge in the same way, as its impacts are…
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Gobeshona goes global due to Covid pandemic
The Gobeshona platform of universities and research Institutes doing research on climate change in Bangladesh was created in 2013 with a handful of members and has now grown to over fifty members. During that time it has supported a monthly webinar for researchers to share their research with each other and also held an annual…
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South Asia Region Resilience Hub bring local voices virtually to COP26
Snippets from the Regional Resilience Hub at COP26
The Regional Resilience Hub at COP26 was home to the Race to Resilience (R2R) campaign connecting people, communities, organizations, and non-state actors driving climate action. The program was led by hubs from around South Asia, Latin America, Africa, South East Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific to bring local experience and knowledge on building resilience…
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Is building climate resilience feasible in a refugee context?
The importance of climate resilient farming for refugees
“Water is to adaptation as energy is to mitigation,” Prof Saleemul Huq Anyone can become a refugee. Today, the world is witnessing the displacement of four million Ukrainians resulting from the Russian invasion. Just like a war, climate change is a major contributing factor to migration. A 2021 World Bank report predicts that up to…
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Ensuring equity and justice to make the indigenous communities climate resilient
A reflection: The life and livelihood of the Garo and Hajong communities residing in Bangladesh
Climate change is a global concern in today’s time, and its impact on the vulnerable population such as women, children, indigenous people, and people with disabilities (PwD) exacerbates their existing social and economic challenges. For instance, the indigenous communities are more susceptible to extreme weather events compared to the non-indigenous groups as many of them…
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The urban climate change conundrum
People, ecosystems and the economy are all at risk
One of the fundamental cornerstones of progress of a country is urbanization. The term “urbanization” is closely linked to the term “development”. Bangladesh has a high urbanization rate (Ahmed and Ahmed, 2017), and it is visible that the country is rapidly developing. The transition from an under-developed to a developing country was not easy. However,…
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The untold environmental catastrophe that is being caused by continuous sand mining
Sand mining — the silent killer of environment
Sand mining can be regarded as a silent threat to the global ecosystem, having a significant impact on climate change, if it is not done appropriately. Unsustainable sand mining could result in riverbank collapse, deepening of river beds, sinking deltas, and coastal erosion as well as biodiversity loss, especially when coupled with the impacts of…