Tag: Blog
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Local Climate Adapters network
LOCAL CLIMATE ADAPTORS: As of July 2021, the world has already entered the era of human-induced climate change, which is causing adverse impacts around the world in both poor as well as rich countries. Tragically, many people are losing their lives and livelihoods from these extreme events, which include heat waves, wildfires, floods, cyclones and…
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Nine more harvests to transform our food systems: Let’s make them count for everyone, everywhere, and for all time
Over the past eight months we—in our capacity as Action Track Chairs for the UN Food Systems Summit—have received well over 2,000 written submissions from around the world on how to transform food systems so that they can deliver access to safe and nutritious foods for all, in ways that deliver sustainable consumption, use approaches…
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FACED WITH DEVASTATING CYCLONES, HOW ARE WOMEN IN COASTAL BANGLADESH BUILDING RESILIENCE?
In recent years, cyclones have battered the coastal fringes of Bangladesh, with one following closely after another. In Satkhira district, a combination of tidal flooding, inundation by storm surges, and saltwater intrusion has led to a rise in salinity in groundwater and fresh-water ponds. This is a problem for local people, who mainly make a…
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Priorities for the 31 March Ministerial Meeting on Climate and Development
On the 31st March 2021, the UK government will convene the Climate and Development Ministerial meeting to discuss practical next steps on priority issues for climate vulnerable countries and communities ahead of COP26. Professor Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, provides his insights on priorities in conversation with Professor Fiona Nunan. Which major…
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Four lessons from the UK-Bangladesh Climate Partnership Forum – and four actions needed by policy-makers
The highway to zero carbon is marked by high profile milestones, strung out like market towns on the Grand Trunk Road. COP26 in Glasgow is one such. But lying between the market towns are the lay-bys and wayside inns where people meet, conversations are held, networks are formed, and deals are struck. They are intrinsic…
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Transforming the Future: Supercharging Action at the UN Food Systems Summit
In a time of many seemingly insurmountable challenges, there is something that we can fix. One thing, which if changed could simultaneously accelerate the end of hunger, ensure everyone has access to a healthy diet, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reverse biodiversity loss, and make societies and economies more equitable and resistant to devastating pandemics…
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Turning Challenge into Opportunity: The Upcoming Bangladeshi Climate Migration Crisis
Last month, I had the chance to stay in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. I could clearly witness the demographic boom happening in an already land and resource scarce overpopulated city. Having worked there for a local research centre, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and having experienced local living conditions, I…
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Researching Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution
Rebecca Eldon one of our Visiting Researchers shares her story. Researching Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution Since my first visit to Bangladesh, the country has stood out to me as one of the most unique places in the world. There is incredible beauty, seen both in the population’s love for art and culture, and in the…
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Students Play Central Role in First Columbia World Project
“I will never forget those voices and those faces sitting in front of me,” Sarah Johnson, a student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), said over coffee at a campus café recently, as she described a meeting she had with a group of elderly rice farmers in the Charlands of western Bangladesh this past…
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My COP24 Blog No:1 – by Dr. Saleemul Huq
I just arrived in freezing Katowice in Poland for COP24 and even before the COP started, attended a pre-COP strategy meeting on Loss and Damage for the four negotiating groups that are amongst the most Vulnerable. Namely the LDC Group, Africa, AOSIS and AILAC. The meeting which was organised by ICCCAD with support from Mercy…
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Exploring the association of mortality and weather in rural Bangladesh
Sarah Moody one of our Visiting Researchers shares her story. In 2017 I began a bachelors of science in Global Health at Imperial College London, this was my first academic venture into the wider determinants of health. At Imperial I was introduced to the impacts of climate change on health in some initial lectures. These sparked my…