Panii Jibon (Water is Life) is a HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation led initiative being implemented in collaboration with its local partners, that aims to address water related threats and vulnerabilities of an already impoverished population living in the disaster-prone coastal areas of Bangladesh. The overall objective of the Panii Jibon project is to build resilience and reduce well-being loss of climate …

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 …

The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) with support from the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme organized a two-day long training workshop entitled ‘Training on Climate Budgeting in Bangladesh’ for young journalists and budget activists from September 18th to 19th, 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This training workshop brought together a group of journalists and budget activists to …

An overview of research findings from the 2013 to 2018 Gibika project. Understanding how environmental stress and climatic changes influence people’s livelihood resilience and lives in Bangladesh. By: Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson Contributing authors: Kees van der Geest and David Wrathall Introduction A climate-resilient and sustainable future for people in vulnerable countries starts with resilient livelihoods. There is an urgent need to …

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, are often the least equipped …

It is our pleasure to inform you that the 4th annual Gobeshona Conference successfully ended on the 11th January this year. We hope that you found the Conference informative and worthwhile. Our primary goal was to bring together global climate change professionals from around Bangladesh and the world in order to have an open dialogue to discuss the key climate …

Keynote speech of  Dr. Alice Baillat at 4th Gobeshona Conference, 8 January 2018 Have you ever asked yourself why weaker parties continue to negotiate with stronger parties in multilateral negotiations while they are a priori certain to lose? How a country like Bangladesh can expect to get something from climate negotiations when, around the same table, you have most powerful …

CREATING COMMON VISIONS: Building pathways to ‘zero-zero’ – a low-carbon, hunger-free Bangladesh Researchers and practitioners will assist stakeholders and decision-makers identify pathways to a low-carbon, hunger-free Bangladesh. A new project in Bangladesh has brought together environment and development researchers and practitioners from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, Oxfam Great Britain and Oxfam Bangladesh and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development …

International Centre for Climate Change and Development(ICCCAD) signs MOU with icddr,b Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on 23 July 2017, the two centres will work to raise awareness on risks associated with climate change and gather and share relevant knowledge. Based in Bangladesh, ICCCAD aims to gain and distribute knowledge on climate change and specifically adaptation and thereby …

Day 1: Research into Use Inaugural Session of Gobeshona3 Great start to 4-day #Gobeshona3 conference on #climatechange in #Bangladesh with @SaleemulHuq @Gobeshona @ICCCAD pic.twitter.com/ahZZ700ntM — Dr. Farhana Sultana (@Farhana_H2O) 8 January 2017 Inaugural session of the Gobeshona Annual conference on Climate change 2017. #gobeshona3 @SaleemulHuq @ICCCAD @MakameMahmud3 @cnazmul78 pic.twitter.com/olkmz8CUXE — Tasfiq Mahmood (@MahmoodTasfiq) 8 January 2017 "Gobeshona, a platform for …