Category: Interviews
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To prevent death and destruction, accept climate science
At the climate summit in Glasgow, climate vulnerable countries want to see progress in three areas: more ambitious emission reductions, the fulfilment of existing funding pledges and solidarity in view of increasing losses and damages. The Bangladeshi climate expert Saleemul Huq explained why in a D+C/E+C interview. Bangladesh is especially exposed to climate risks.…
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How Climate Change Is Worsening Food Insecurity
COVID-19 is “a harbinger” of what the climate crisis will bring. [quotes quotes_style=”bpull” quotes_pos=”center”](The virus) hits us in a matter of days and months. Hopefully, it’ll be over in a year or two, if everything goes well with the vaccine – but the climate change problem is going to linger for much, much longer[/quotes] -Prof…
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Climate change impacts are not taking time off because of Covid-19 crisis: Dr Saleemul Huq
Climate change and disaster risks are increasingly affecting the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) across the world. Bangladesh, a lower- middle-income country which graduated from the LDC status in 2015, is no exception. In this backdrop, the Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests is executing the Formulation and Advancement of the National Adaptation Plan…
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After 30 years of negotiations, where next on the climate crisis? In conversation with Saleemul Huq.
Click this Link to listen this interview. I sat down recently with Saleemul Huq, a scientist and activist who has attended every single global negotiation on climate change since 1992. Saleem is Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh and Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) in London. We…
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‘Climate change is happening faster than it was predicted’
Bangladesh is the only country in the world that has prepared a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, and that is also 10 years agoSaleemul Huq is a leading climate expert and is the co-author of a number of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. On the eve of an international climate conference in Dhaka, titled “6th Gobeshona: International Conference on Research into Action” The Business Standard has talked with him on a number of burning issues. The…
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‘Only 2% of global climate change funds reach most vulnerable people’
Dr Saleemul Huq, director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019, speaks with DhakaTribune's Mehedi Al Amin about Bangladesh’s priorities in the upcoming COP25. This is the first of a three-part series What will the negotiation be like this year…
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
“Swimming against the tide”The Bangladeshi scholar Saleemul Huq has been observing international climate negotiations from the start. In our interview, he assessed the EU’s role. In what sense is the EU important in climate talks? It is extremely important because it is a block of rich nations which are still willing to be ambitious. By contrast, the USA…
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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…