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A crucial decade for tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
3 weeks ago
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
132

As we welcome the new year of 2021, we also enter a new decade that will culminate with 2030, a year that marks an end point for some very important goals and milestones for the world. For one, it will mark the final year for all the countries to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the …

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Can Bangladesh become a knowledge economy?

By ICCCAD
4 weeks ago
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
102

As we say goodbye to the terrible year of 2020 and enter not just a new year in 2021 but a new decade to 2030, it is time to look ahead with some sense of optimism for our country over the coming decade. Bangladesh has the opportunity and potential for becoming a significant knowledge-based economy by 2030 if we make …

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2020 has been a year of nature-based solutions.
So what awaits us in 2021?

By ICCCAD
December 24, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Opinion
135

In 2020, Nature-based Solutions, or NbS, has emerged as a much-talked-about environmental concept in Bangladesh. While the Covid-19 pandemic has put the whole world in turmoil, we do have other challenges to tackle—climate emergency, disaster risks, food and water insecurities, extreme poverty, and unprecedented biodiversity loss. In simple terms, NbS are the actions we take with the help of nature …

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Entering the Anthropocene era in a befitting manner

By ICCCAD
December 23, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
121

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been a pioneer in terms of developing the Human Development Index (HDI), which is a more balanced way of measuring human development that goes beyond traditional, simple economic indicators of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They have also been publishing an annual Human Development Report (HDR) which tracks every country’s HDI each year. Each …

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Where is the $100 billion to tackle climate change?

By ICCCAD
December 17, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
125

On December 12, 2020, it was the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the occasion was marked by a Climate Ambition Summit hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, who serves as the …

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What can we expect from the new US climate czar?

By ICCCAD
December 3, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
96

President-Elect Joe Biden of the United States of America recently announced his national security and foreign policy team including a significant new position of a “climate envoy” who would sit on the National Security Council, choosing former Senator John Kerry for that position. So what does this appointment mean for the US and the world and how are we to …

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Why Bangladesh should submit its Nationally Determined Contribution by December 31

By ICCCAD
November 18, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
405

At the time of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change which was approved by all countries in 2015, every country submitted it’s intended Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in which they made pledges and commitments for mitigation by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. They also agreed that each country will update and submit their revised NDC every five years—so the deadline …

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America returns to the Paris Agreement on climate change

By ICCCAD
November 11, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
399

The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States of America has brought a great sigh of relief to everyone around the world who wants to see global action to tackle the threat of climate change. It is undoubtedly true that another term for Trump would have caused almost irretrievable harm to the ability of the …

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Postponing COP26 cannot postpone climate action

By ICCCAD
November 4, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
445

The 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was supposed to have been held this week in Glasgow, Scotland under the chairmanship of the government of the United Kingdom. It has now been postponed until November 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is very important that actions to tackle …

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Climate Vulnerable Forum can change the paradigm on dealing with climate change

By ICCCAD
October 28, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
832

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), consisting of nearly 50 of the most climate vulnerable developing countries, which was set up a decade ago on the basis of their common vulnerability to climate change, has now evolved into a more robust group of countries who are no longer only emphasising their vulnerability but rather moving towards resilience. The leadership of the …

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