Category: News
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Climate change diplomacy is now the challenge
Last May, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was invited to the annual leaders’ high-level meeting in Munich, Germany, to speak on the growing concern about the global security threats due to climate change. On July 10, Bangladesh will be hosting President Heine of the Marshall Islands who heads the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)—which is a group…
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Environmental migration and non-migration: A new scientific discourse
People migrating from one place to another—whether within the same country or across international borders—is a complex phenomenon, in which pull factors (such as job-seeking) and/or push factors (such as environmental degradation) can play important roles. Recently, the impacts of climate change have been included in this hypothesis, as a major environmental push factor, which…
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Preparing for COP25
Climate change affects the least developed countries the most The nearly 200 countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet every December at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) to review progress and decide new actions. The COP moves from continent to continent each year with last year (COP24),…
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Time to ramp up investment in adaptation to climate change
2019 is proving to be a game-changing year with regard to the issue of global climate change in a number of ways. First, we are seeing the unequivocal attribution of incidents starting from hurricanes, wildfires, floods—such as in the mid-Western states in the US—to human-induced climate change repercussions. From now onwards, it is fairly safe…
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Internal climate migration a challenge to creating climate resilient Bangladesh
“These people mostly take shelter in Dhaka, which is currently in no position to absorb 10 million more people” The government’s vision of turning Bangladesh into a climate resilient country by 2030 would be hard to achieve as climate migrants would affect the procedure, said environmental experts at a press briefing yesterday. ActionAid and ICCCAD…
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We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Mizan R. Khan to ICCCAD
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Mizan R. Khan to ICCCAD, as Programme Director of the LDC University Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC) programme at ICCCAD. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, and we are very excited to have him here. Prior to joining ICCCAD, he served as a faculty at North…
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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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Dr Saleemul Huq among ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019’
He is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 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” for making a positive difference. Saleemul has so far participated in all the International Climate…
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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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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…