Category: Dr Saleemul Huq Media
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Dr Huq’s Message to Extinction Rebellion
At the forefront of the climate and ecological emergency. Dr. Saleemul Huq supports action that brings focus to the existential threat represented by our leaders’ lack of action. Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological…
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Children are at risk due to climate change, but they are also sources of solutions
A recent report from Unicef mentions that 19 million (or one in three) children in Bangladesh are at risk from the effects of climate change. This is indeed an alarming potential risk for the country. However, all such reports about future adverse impacts of future climate change have an unwritten codicil which says “if we…
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Time to enhance global support to the most vulnerable communities
The massive cyclone Idai that devastated Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week has destroyed 90 percent of Beira, the second biggest city in Mozambique. This was a cyclone of unprecedented severity for that part of Africa and has been rightly attributed to human-induced climate change by the scientific community. Hence, we are now unequivocally living…
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Bangladesh’s journey towards tackling poverty and climate change
Sussex Development Lectures Bangladesh’s journey towards tackling poverty and climate change 21 March 201917:00–18:30 IDS, Convening SpaceInstitute of Development Studies University of Sussex Library Road Brighton BN1 9RE Bangladesh has been well known as both a poor as well as climate vulnerable country for several decades. However the country is now well on the path…
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Dr. Saleemul Huq among world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy 2019
Dr Saleemul Huq, director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), has been named among the “World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019”, with the likes of David Attenborough and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The announcement came last night on the official site of Apolitical, a global network for government helping public servants find…
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Dr Saleemul: Impact of global warming inevitable
Dr Saleemul Huq has participated in the international climate negotiations since their inception in 1992, and has been named among the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019’ for making a positive difference. In an interview with the Dhaka Tribune’s Syed Samiul Basher Anik, Dr Huq – director, International Centre for Climate Change…
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How children are educating adults on climate change
Over the last two decades or more, the global scientific community has been raising the alarm about climate change, through the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which were then considered by the governments of the world at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
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Dr. Saleemul Huq’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok
Watch! Dr. Saleemul Huq’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok. The ESCAP Second Regional Workshop: Innovative climate finance mechanisms for financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region took place from 6 March to 7 March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
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A talking point for COP25 -A realistic approach needed to fund loss and damage from climate change
The topic of loss and damage from human-induced climate change has been a highly politically sensitive issue in international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for many years with vulnerable developing countries, including Bangladesh, arguing in its favour and the rich countries arguing against it. In recent years, there have…
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Why we should set our sights on climate diplomacy
Over the last two decades, the issue of global climate change has shifted from being primarily an environmental issue to a global security and diplomatic issue as well. Hence many countries have shifted responsibility from the ministry of environment to the foreign ministry as the focal ministry to handle the issue. This is also a…
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ROHINGYA CRISIS- Environmental challenges that can’t be ignored
It is now well over a year since nearly 700,000 Rohingyas were forced out of Myanmar and Bangladesh opened its borders to them and gave them shelter in the Cox’s Bazar region. The immediate emergency period is coming to an end and the government of Bangladesh as well as all the international and national agencies…