Tag: IPCC
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Climate Change Impacts in Bangladesh
WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE MEANS FOR A COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE.
This report is a scientific synthesis by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). It is intended to inform policymakers, media, the private sector, civil society, academics and anyone looking for country-level information on the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh. It has…
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Opinion: Effective climate adaptation must be locally-led
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in 2021, stated that South Asia will face intensified monsoon seasons, heatwaves and changing snowmelt patterns as the planet warms. And yet, the people most affected are often left out of adaptation projects. According to the think tank International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), “estimates suggest under 10…
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Has the UN’s process to meet Climate goals been effective? | Inside Story
Watched Inside Story series of Al Jazeera where Prof Saleemul Huq’s talking This clip part of Al Jazeera Inside Story series which originally published on Al Jazeera English Youtube Channel. Find the full clip link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gKGcWqzH1Y
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The three eras of loss and damage
The world has entered the third era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change. In the first era, the experts were focused on completely avoiding the potential losses and damages from climate change by stopping – or at least drastically reducing – greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which caused the global temperature to rise. This…
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Addressing gender inequalities of losses and damages
Gender is a critical component of discussions over climate action
In the parlance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “losses and damages” refer broadly to harm from observed climate change impacts (past and current) and projected risks (future). The recent IPCC AR6 WGII report states that “observed mortality and losses due to floods and droughts are much greater for regions with high vulnerability and…
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Doing climate adaptation better
I have written about the need to ramp up adaptation in order to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change around the world, as lead author on adaptation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for over a decade. So the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC containing that message was nothing new.…
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What does the IPCC say about Bangladesh in its Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group II?
Around 850,000 households and 250,000 hectares of harvestable lands were lost in climate-induced disasters; loss of agricultural land also resulted in crop failure, which increased the price of rice by 30% between 2014 and 2021
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group II (WGII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published on February 28, 2022. AR6 by Working Group I, published in August 2021, clearly stated that increasing anthropogenic activities have increased the global mean temperature by over 1°C, resulting in increased frequency and intensity of…
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What does the IPCC Working Group II say about Bangladesh in its Sixth Assessment Report?
In March and April 2017 Bangladesh experienced drastic floods which affected 220,000 ha of nearly ready to be harvested summer paddy crop and resulted in almost a 30% year on year increase in paddy prices. An attribution study of those pre-monsoon extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh concluded that anthropogenic climate change doubled the likelihood of…
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Adaptation strategies must be bottom-up
There are two major outcomes and messages on adaptation to climate change that have been mentioned in the recently published Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group II (WG2) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The first one says that the impacts of climate change are evident all around the world—in both poor…
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Making our voices heard
Bangladeshi scientists continue to be missing in leading publications on climate change
On February 28, the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report (AR6) for Working Group II (WGII) was released, serving as the new basis for global policy-making on how to adapt to climate change. As one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and a global leader in adaptation, Bangladeshi scientists should…
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Another grim warning on climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global body under the United Nations (UN), has been conducting periodic reviews (every six or seven years) of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change for the last 30 years. The agency is currently in the process of publishing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in three…