Bangladesh starts its journey towards climate resilience
At the beginning of January 2019 Bangladesh started to take the required steps to become a climate resilient country by 2030…
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Dr. Saleemul Huq at the Talanoa Dialogue
Dr. Saleemul Huq was invited by the Prime Minister of Fiji as one of fifteen selected indi…
Changing the climate narrative -Time for transformational adaptation for a climate resilient Bangladesh
As we start the new year of 2019, we have 11 years to 2030 which is an important year to achieve the Sustainable Development…
2018: A tipping point for climate change
As 2018 comes to an end, it can be said that the year has proved to be a major tipping point for the issue of climate change…
Dr. Saleemul Huq at the Talanoa Dialogue
Dr. Saleemul Huq was invited by the Prime Minister of Fiji as one of fifteen selected individuals from around the world to g…
COP24: Successes and failures
After a time extension of an extra day, the Rulebook for the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP24 in Katowice, Poland on Dec…
COP24 gets political after first week
The first week of the two-week 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C…
Saleemul Huq update from COP24 : Development and Climate Days
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the Int…
Saleemul Huq update from COP24 : Loss and damage
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the Int…
Saleemul Huq update from COP24 : Capacity building
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the Int…
Understanding the art of negotiation at COP24
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) all the countries meet each year at the annual Conf…
Saleemul Huq short update from COP24
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the Int…
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…
HOW LONG TERM-PLANNING CAN WORK
SCENARIO BUILDING AND THE SDGS Bangladesh has a strong tradition of medium term planning through the periodic Five Year Plan…
Listening to Rural Youth
What do young people from the countryside think about the past and present? In March, Oxfam Bangladesh organized focus group…
Looking to the Long Road Ahead
Creating development pathways for alternative futures When Henry Kissinger infamously said in 1971 that Bangladesh would be …
Making climate budgeting transparent
Bangladesh is among the world’s most at-risk countries in relation to climate change and the Government of Bangladesh …
Why we must plan for urbanisation now — and fast
The third annual conference on urban resilience was just held in Dhaka with well over 300 participants from home and abroad,…
Making the Rule Book for implementing the Paris Agreement
In December 2015 in Paris, at the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl…
Measuring the global goal on climate change adaptation -Bangladesh’s contribution to the upcoming debate at COP24
In the Paris Agreement on climate change, which was agreed on in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of …
Challenges for the new Global Commission for Adaptation
Last week in the Hague, the Netherlands a new Global Commission for Adaptation to Climate Change was launched with the forme…
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