Tag: Gobeshona
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Bangladesh doesn’t need new pilot projects to tackle climate change
FILE PHOTO: REUTERS Over the last decade, government agencies, civil society bodies and the private sector have initiated literally hundreds of pilot projects to deal with climate change-related issues, ranging from mitigation and adaptation to loss and damage. For every aspect of climate action, someone, somewhere has already implemented pilot projects that have resulted in…
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Stories Of Resilience: Lessons From Local Adaptation Practice
The stories in this compilation, based on the sessions of the 2022 Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation, are an important basis for us to understand the difference between local action and locally led action, and to identify effective ways of supporting local leadership. The publication is based on case-studies from the 2nd annual gobeshona global conference,…
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Climate Tribune | June 2022
Climate Tribune | June 2022 Articles in the series “A Growing Platform for Knowledge About Climate Change and Potential Solution” By Sarah Farheen Khan “Taking a human rights-based approach to understand climate-induced displacement in Bangladesh” By Rukhsar Sultana “Water Resilience through Locally Led Adaptation” By Adnan Qader “Comprehensive adaptation measures to address climate change impacts”…
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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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Building capacity to implement the Paris Agreement
The Asia-Pacific Climate Week was held at the UN Conference Centre, Bangkok from September 2 to 6, 2019. The objective was to have a regional dialogue on how to rachet up ambition in mitigation and speed up adaptation actions. This event has also been held in some other regions. It covered a whole range of…
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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’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok
Watch! Dr. Saleemul Huq’s speech at Launch of Regional Climate Finance Network in Bangkok. The ESCAP Second Regional Workshop: Innovative climate finance mechanisms for financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region took place from 6 March to 7 March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
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Why we should set our sights on climate diplomacy
Over the last two decades, the issue of global climate change has shifted from being primarily an environmental issue to a global security and diplomatic issue as well. Hence many countries have shifted responsibility from the ministry of environment to the foreign ministry as the focal ministry to handle the issue. This is also a…
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GOBESHONA: CULTIVATING ‘SOUTH-SOUTH’ PEER-TO-PEER EXCHANGE TO BUILD ADAPTIVE CAPACITY
Promoting an abundance of expertise and research on climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, the Gobeshona Conference, held in Dhaka in January 2018, was a prototype for South-South, peer-to-peer capacity building and knowledge exchange. 11 January 2018: A familiar narrative is that developing countries, which are most vulnerable to the first and worst impacts of climate change,…
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Climate compensation
The issue of loss and damage from climate change has been a very politically contentious issue in the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since its beginning. The reason is that developed countries did not want to acknowledge ‘loss and damage’, as they feared it would lead to claims…
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Gobeshona Young Research Program Launched at IUB
(Originally published here) The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized the launching ceremony of the Gobeshona Young Research Program (GYRP) on Monday, 11 May 2015 at IUB’s campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka. The USAID has awarded a grant for two years to the ICCCAD for the GYRP program.…
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Dr. Saleemul Huq’s Interview with Dhaka Tribune
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD spoke to the fastest growing English daily in Bangladesh, Dhaka Tribune about the status of climate change research in Bangladesh, the reasons behind it and the way forward. The conversation was focused on the Gobeshona platform and the upcoming Gobeshona conference. The full interview can be accessed in the link provided…