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  • 3 days ago Finance for loss and damage from climate change must be ensured soon
  • 1 week ago University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action
  • 1 week ago Success story from the informal settlements of Bangladesh

    Maybe access to a stable and secure job opportunity encourages/influences the informal settlers to seek legal housing status

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Finance for loss and damage from climate change must be ensured soon

By Web editor
3 days ago
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
32

At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last November, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, speaking on behalf of 55 vulnerable developing countries under the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), put forward a demand to set up a facility to finance loss and damage from human-induced climate change. This demand was included in the draft of the Glasgow …

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100 billion to tackle climate change is a trillion too short

By Web editor
2 weeks ago
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
109

A decade ago, developed countries pledged to provide developing countries with USD 100 billion each year, from 2020 onwards. The year 2020 came and went and the USD 100 billion was not delivered even in 2021. At COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the developed countries apologised for their failure to keep their promise and pledged again to fulfil it. …

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Time to Focus on the Global Goal on Adaptation

By ICCCAD
April 27, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
183

During the negotiations that led to the historic Paris Agreement at the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in 2015, the climate vulnerable countries argued for and succeeded in getting the global goal on mitigation of staying below two degrees Celsius—and if possible, below 1.5 degrees Celsius. This was indeed a remarkable achievement for the vulnerable countries at that time. …

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Climate action: We’re running out of time

By Web editor
April 21, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
205

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations (UN) body set up to commission major assessments of the state of science on climate change and issue their assessment report every five or so years. It has three Working Groups (WGs): WG I is for climate science, WG II for vulnerability impacts and adaptation, and WG III for …

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Adaptation strategies must be bottom-up

By Web editor
March 16, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
381

There are two major outcomes and messages on adaptation to climate change that have been mentioned in the recently published Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group II (WG2) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The first one says that the impacts of climate change are evident all around the world—in both poor countries and rich—necessitating a much …

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Developing countries are leading climate actions

By Web editor
March 9, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
391

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) was launched over 10 years ago, by then President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and has been operating since then with a different head of government in charge of it for a two-year tenure. The current chair of CVF is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, whose term is scheduled to end later this year, …

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Another grim warning on climate change

By Web editor
March 2, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
362

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global body under the United Nations (UN), has been conducting periodic reviews (every six or seven years) of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change for the last 30 years. The agency is currently in the process of publishing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in three parts. The first part was …

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The world needs to support the victims of climate change

By Web editor
February 23, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
411

In the last few weeks, three separate cyclones hit the island of Madagascar and then Mozambique, causing loss of life and damage to infrastructure. Even in the UK, Storm Eunice caused much damage. These are just a few examples of the loss and damage attributable to human-induced climate change, and in every such incident, it is the victims who are …

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Locally led adaptation: We can lead the world

By ICCCAD
February 16, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
429

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) was set up with its headquarters in the Netherlands a couple of years ago, and has already developed into a major platform focusing on supporting countries to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. It has already set up regional centres in China and Africa, and is about to launch the regional centre …

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How to fix the failures of climate finance

By ICCCAD
February 9, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
245

One of the positive outcomes of the COP26 held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 was a universal acknowledgement of the failure of developed countries to deliver climate finance to developing countries, and even of developing countries themselves to actually deliver to the most vulnerable communities within their own territories. While it is good that countries acknowledged their failure and …

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