Sitting on a plastic chair inside a small brick house in Cox’s Bazar, the light from the evening sun shining on his tired face, 70 year-old Mahmud* recalls the day when a five-metre tidal wave engulfed his home and land on Kutubdia island, killing his wife and two sons. The ‘1991 cyclone’ was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to ever …
“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 summer. Johnson made the trip …
Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to assume that the future will follow much the same trajectory as the past. Imagining alternative futures can be dismissed as dreaming, or science fiction. And if we do imagine the …
Speaking at a colourful event graced by the Minister of Environment and Climate, the Minister mentioned that this book “The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building” will obviously steer debates on the subject of climate change capacity building under the Paris Agreement. "it is now time for Bangladesh to carryout rigorous evidence based research on Capacity building needs in …
The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) took place in Chandana conference room, IEB Building, SREDA Level-9, Ramna, Dhaka- 1000, Bangladesh on the 18th July 2018. The ceremony began with general introductory remarks between the entities SREDA and ICCCAD. The ceremony …
Adaptation to climate change is well underway. Now it’s time to make it add up to something bigger Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, all countries must set goals for their efforts to adapt to climate impacts – something that will be taken up at the next climate talks in Poland in December. When it comes to adaptation, setting …
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 interest, so that when it …
Saleh Ahmed one of our Visiting Researchers shares his Experience. Understanding the Demands for Climate Services in Coastal Farming Communities of Bangladesh By-Saleh Ahmed Anomalies in weather and climate patterns are increasingly evident in many parts of the world, and the people of Bangladesh are experiencing those first hand. While the entire country is exposed to various climate stresses, the densely …
Nureen Faiza Anisha one of our Alumnus shares her story. My interest in the field of climate change was triggered by the climatology course I took in my undergraduate final year in BUET, where I was studying water resources engineering (WRE). I was so driven by that 2 credit course, I did my undergraduate thesis on delineating the relationship between climatic …
Is it time to make climate polluters pay for the losses and the damage they cause? Even before we come to end of the year we already know that 2017 will be one of the warmest years on record and we have seen a succession of extreme weather events around the world, including typhoons in the Pacific and hurricanes in …