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 …

Gobeshona 6 will bring together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from around the world to share their knowledge, research and practical experience on climate change issues in Bangladesh. The 6th Gobeshona International Conference on Research into Action in Bangladesh will be held during 20-24 January 2020. This year, the conference will have more international participants and …

This year marks a clear break with the past in terms of the climate change problem now becoming a “climate change crisis” with the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change getting visible across the world. The most recent manifestation of it was the unprecedented heatwave in Europe, which was several degrees higher than normal. This also means that all countries …

At the beginning of January 2019 Bangladesh started to take the required steps to become a climate resilient country by 2030 by achieving transformational adaptation to climate change impacts. While there are many strands to fulfil this important strategy, one of the first is to generate, disseminate and use good quality scientific knowledge so that the process is a rigorous …

The 5th Gobeshona Annual Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh will be held from 8-11 January 2019.This time Gobeshona Conference going to be an International Conference where we are inviting and expecting participants from around the world to come and share their experience and learn from Bangladesh. Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download …

Last week in the Hague, the Netherlands a new Global Commission for Adaptation to Climate Change was launched with the former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and Kristalina Georgieva, head of the World Bank as the three heads. There are also a number of governments supporting the new Commission, including Bangladesh, and around twenty eminent …

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 …

The 4th Gobeshona Annual Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh will be held from 8-11 January 2018. The brand of this conference is “Gobeshona4″. The whole conference is divided into 3 sections: (1) Local Solutions (2) Science Policy Dialogues and (3) Communicating Research. First, three days of the conference are allocated for the researchers to present their findings. …

(Originally published here) Money for fighting climate change was in focus at the closing session of Gobeshona – an annual Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh. The conference provided the opportunity for international and multi-stakeholder participants to engage with a wide range of Bangladesh-specific climate change research. John Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at …

(Originally published here) I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used …