Two years ago, the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) was set up under the chairmanship of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, and with a number of eminent individuals as Commissioners, including Dr Muhammad Musa from BRAC. The Commission was supposed to study and promote different aspects of adaptation to climate change and it was supported by …
One of the major outcomes of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change—agreed by all countries at the end of the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Paris, France in December 2015—was that every country would prepare and submit their respective plans to take action to tackle climate change every …
SMALL GRANTS INITIATIVE Establishing Southern-based Collaborations within and across Regions-Towards Enhancing Locally-led Adaptation and Resilience TO CREATE GREATER SUSTAINED COLLABORATION AMONG SOUTHERN-BASED GROUPS OF ACADEMICS AND PRACTITIONERS THROUGH TARGETED INVESTMENTS AND GRANTS TO PROMOTE LOCALLY-LED ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE. ☛ Application process: To apply, please register for Gobeshona conference first then visit http://conference.gobeshona.net/sgp/ For any queries, please contact:shahrin.mannan@icccad.org Example …
As we welcome the new year of 2021, we also enter a new decade that will culminate with 2030, a year that marks an end point for some very important goals and milestones for the world. For one, it will mark the final year for all the countries to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the …
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), a research and capacity-building organization is seeking 20 University students from the Sylhet region and 20 from the Khulna region to participate in an in-person training workshop under the SAKTEE Project. Students will participate in training on issues of Adaptation knowledge and technologies that enhance community resilience Gender and social inequities and …
As the terrible year 2020 ends and we look forward to a better 2021, I would like to share some thoughts and wish all my friends and colleagues a happy new year. I believe that the year 2020 will be remembered in future not only because of the COVID19 pandemic but also as the year when the planet entered the …
As we say goodbye to the terrible year of 2020 and enter not just a new year in 2021 but a new decade to 2030, it is time to look ahead with some sense of optimism for our country over the coming decade. Bangladesh has the opportunity and potential for becoming a significant knowledge-based economy by 2030 if we make …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been a pioneer in terms of developing the Human Development Index (HDI), which is a more balanced way of measuring human development that goes beyond traditional, simple economic indicators of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They have also been publishing an annual Human Development Report (HDR) which tracks every country’s HDI each year. Each …
Saleemul Huq’s ranking is the highest for an environmental science researcher located in Bangladesh Saleemul Huq, the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and professor at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has been ranked amongst the world’s top 2% scientists in the environmental sciences category. Huq has been positioned in the 1,324th position among 66,925 …
Five years after the 2015 Paris Agreement was negotiated into existence, climate scientist Saleemul Huq says we are living in a climate-changed world. Five years on, the United Kingdom — as the incoming president of COP26 to be held in November 2021— has convened a Climate Ambition Summit. To be held on the fifth anniversary of that momentous night, it …