Overview – Gibika | Securing livelihoods against climate change All key drivers of risk are present in Bangladesh: natural hazards, rapid urbanisation, demographic changes and poverty in many regions of the country. With Gibika the project partners aim to increase resilience of people affected by disasters and climate change and to secure livelihoods also during crisis. Example fallback content: This …

This Reflections Article published on SENTIO JOURNAL, Issue 2: Theory and Practice in Research Ethics Authors: Alexandra Halligey, Istikh Ahmed, M Feisal Rahman, Hanna A Ruszczyk and Sumaiya Binte Selim Sudha   Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF.

Sharing lessons is critical for ensuring that finite funding for climate change adaptation is deployed in ways that provide the most value and impact. Successes are celebrated, but failures are habitually obscured, leaving a major knowledge base untapped. This commentary calls for the urgent sharing of failures as a source of critical learning. Authors: RossWestoby1 Mohammad FeisalRahman2 Karen E.McNamara3 SaleemulHuq4 …

What makes people prefer one place over another? Liveability is a popular topic, but smaller cities are still left unexplored. Istiakh Ahmed from the International Centre for Climate Change and Development wonders what residents in coastal Bangladesh consider a liveable, even loveable city. “Living in Dhaka has become impossible; this city is not liveable at all”. Living in Dhaka for …

Nature and people are closely interconnected but our current approaches and actions to speed up economic growth are harming nature. Rapid industrialization, unplanned urbanization, and excessive resource utilization are rapidly changing the quality of our ecosystems and, of course, changing our climate. To ensure sustainable, healthy societies we need to learn from nature and incorporate it when solving our development …

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are receiving international attention for helping us to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, whilst protecting biodiversity and supporting sustainable development. As such, NbS provide a way to enable economic development without ecosystem loss or damage. Bangladesh has a long history of implementing NbS but has faced challenges due to lack of robust design, …

Under the UN, reduction of emissions(mitigation) and resilience (adapting to climate change impacts) are often treated as two discrete areas. But as the world is already experiencing the impacts of climate change — such as the recent ‘super cyclone’ and flooding in Bangladesh, or the wildfires in Australia — we are going to have to adapt our infrastructure to be …

The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as far more than a health crisis for the world’s poor and marginalised, exposing faultlines in food systems around the world. The UN’s World Food Programme warned in early July that 270 million people will face food insecurity before the end of 2020. Our ongoing research in Mongla, a small coastal city of 106,000 people in southwestern Bangladesh, is …

Based on a number of plans, Bangladesh has been implementing “Adaptation” at both national and local levels for over 15 years. With Prof. Saleemul Huq, Prof. Mizan Khan and ICCCAD having a long-standing active involvement in the process, they reflect on the progress of the country. Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: …

The third Capacity-Building day, a thematic day under the side event of second Capacity-Building Hub at the 25th Conference of Parties was held on 04 December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The Capacity-Building Hub event had seven different thematic days, starting with the Capacity-Building Day. The aim of the daylong event was to highlight innovative solutions for climate-related capacity-building at different …