One of the veterans of the COP summit, Dr Saleemul Huq once again attended the conference last month. Regarded as one of the most influential climate scientists and policy experts in the world, Huq is widely cited in the international media and advocacy literature when it comes to climate change policy issues. The Bangladeshi academic and advocate is the Director …

Climate Tribune | December 2021 “How to influence the COP process: ICCCAD’s role in COP26“ Articles in the series ‘I am quite disheartened by the outcome of COP26’ (INTERVIEW WITH LEADING CLIMATE POLICY EXPERT SALEEMUL HUQ) by Magnus Mayeen Ahmed ‘Outcome on capacity building at COP26’ by Prof Mizan R Khan ‘If finance is not agreed,nothing is agreed’ by Tasfia Tasnim ‘Loss …

The current secretary-general of the United Nations, Antonio Guiterres, has already established himself as a champion for actions to tackle climate change to all countries and actors, and has recently been quite outspoken in his criticism of the poor outcomes of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow last month. While there was no doubt that some incremental …

Going into COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November, it was already clear that the most vulnerable developing countries wanted the topic of loss and damage from human-induced climate change to get significant attention in the COP process, as well as outside the COP process. Now, after COP26 is over, we can discuss what was achieved, as well as what was …

Ever since COP26 ended, we have been bombarded with analyses on how good or bad it was. The COP26 Presidency claimed it was a great success, while the vulnerable developing countries left Glasgow in great dismay over the overturning of their demand for a “Glasgow facility” on “financing loss and damage”. They only got a promise to hold a “dialogue” …

One of the new and very politically sensitive topics being discussed at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, as the summit enters its second and final week of negotiations, is the matter of loss and damage from human-induced climate change. This refers to the adverse impacts that can be attributed to human-induced climate change due …

About this event Food Forward – Achieving Climate Goals through Food System Transformation (WWF Panda Pavilion). Date: 10 November,  Time: 09:30 -11:00 GMT Where: In person at the WWF Pavilion in the Blue Zone at COP26 + online   NOTE: All events require pre-registration and are offered free both in person and via live stream! 9:30am – 11:00am. This event (blue …

‘From a fast vanishing riverine landscape’: tales of uncertainty, resilience and transformation through visual stories and narratives Date: 09 November, 2021  Time: 10.30-11.30am UK time Where: In person at the LLA Hub in Blue Zone + online The session sketches the issues of lived experiences representing climate change, uncertainty and transformative actions in Sundarbans. The participants of these visual methods …

Over the last few days here in Glasgow, Scotland, over a hundred world leaders have arrived for the leaders’ summit at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to give speeches, hold meetings with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and also have some bilateral meetings among themselves. They are not here …

International Centre for Climate and Development (ICCCAD) and Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NBSI) at the University of Oxford are jointly organizing a session on “The contribution of nature-based solutions to vulnerability reduction and sustainable development in Bangladesh and the Global South” under the South Asia Regional Resilience Hub at COP 26. Date: Thursday, 4 November, 2021 Time:  09:00 -10:30 am (GMT) …