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Rethinking travel in a post-pandemic world

By ICCCAD
January 6, 2021
in :  Article, Journal Article, Publications
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Climate scientists recommend ways to boost the value of virtual conferences and reduce carbon footprints even when travel curbs ease. In 2018, social scientist Roger Tyers pledged to stop flying for work and leisure. Soon afterwards, he won a research fellowship that included fieldwork in China. So he decided to take the train from Southampton to Shanghai, a journey of …

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PART II: Sustainable Energy Pathways for Post-Pandemic Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
December 22, 2020
in :  Article, Journal Article, Publications
290

This article is the second installment of a two-part series. As COVID-19 ravages Bangladesh’s economy, its inevitable impacts have exposed the many dysfunctionalities and loopholes of the country’s power sector. This article attempts to better understand how the pandemic has affected Bangladesh’s power sector and anticipates the role of renewable energy technology in paving climate-resilient, sustainable energy pathways. Part I tackles the …

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PART I: Sustainable Energy Pathways for Post-Pandemic Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
December 21, 2020
in :  Article, Journal Article, Publications
382

This article is the first installment of a two-part series. As COVID-19 ravages Bangladesh’s economy, its inevitable impacts have exposed the many dysfunctionalities and loopholes of the country’s power sector. This article attempts to better understand how the pandemic has affected Bangladesh’s power sector and anticipates the role of renewable energy technology in paving climate-resilient, sustainable energy pathways. Part I tackles the …

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Transforming the Future: Supercharging Action at the UN Food Systems Summit

By ICCCAD
November 15, 2020
in :  Article, Blog, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
1,265

In a time of many seemingly insurmountable challenges, there is something that we can fix. One thing, which if changed could simultaneously accelerate the end of hunger, ensure everyone has access to a healthy diet, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reverse biodiversity loss, and make societies and economies more equitable and resistant to devastating pandemics such as COVID-19. Does that …

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I (don’t) want to live here! Exploring perceptions of liveability in Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
September 17, 2020
in :  Article
456

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 …

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Why emission reduction and resilience are two sides of the same coin

By ICCCAD
August 12, 2020
in :  Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Publications
247

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 …

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Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city

By ICCCAD
July 16, 2020
in :  Article
658

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 …

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