Under Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries are supposed to ensure awareness, education and capacity building to tackle climate change with the developed countries also promising to support these efforts in the developing countries. Each year, at the annual Conference of the Parties (COP), there is a negotiating track to review progress …
Dr. Saleemul Huq handing over award to Hugh Brammer
Dr. Saleemul Huq handing over award on behalf of University Press Ltd. to Hugh Brammer for there 40 years anniversary . After that Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of ICCCAD Delivered his speech at Climate Change And Development Seminar Series hosted by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University, UK . The Seminar was held on Monday 16 April 2018 …
The state of development and tackling climate change in Bangladesh
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of ICCCAD Delivered his speech at Climate Change And Development Seminar Series hosted by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University, UK . The Seminar is held on Monday 16 April 13.00 – 14.30 at IDS, Room 221. Here is the Recorded video link of this Seminar
The ‘Talanoa Dialogue’ on Climate Change
The 196 countries that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet each year around December at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) to review progress on implementing the decisions. The COP moves to a different continent each year as each continent hosts it in turn. The last (23rd) conference, known as COP23, was the …
Updating Bangladesh’s climate change strategy and action plan
In 2009 Bangladesh developed and released the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) which was the first of its kind at that time. It was a remarkable document for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was developed entirely by Bangladeshi experts with Bangladesh government’s own funds, rather than by international consultants funded by a developed country or UN …
Building climate resilient, migrant-friendly cities
A recent report from the World Bank has looked at the potential number of people who will be displaced and become climate migrants due to the adverse impacts of climate change around the world by 2050. The report estimated the number to be around 140 million across Asia and Africa, with 40 million in South Asia. Of them, a significant …
Risks and opportunities of LDC graduation
The prime minister, the government and the people of Bangladesh can be justly proud that the country will now be able to graduate out of the Least Developed Country (LDC) status within the next few years. However, this graduation comes with both risks as well as opportunities. The first risk is that we will lose our duty-free access to the …
Tapping the potential of our youth
Many oil-rich countries like Norway, United Arab Emirates and Brunei have put billions of US dollars into Sovereign Wealth Funds through which they invest in interest-bearing assets around the world, either enhancing the amount in the fund, or for subsidising costs of selected services for their own citizens. Bangladesh has the potential to develop its own sovereign wealth assets over …
The superior choice
Bangladesh and India should build solar farms, not coal plants, on both sides of the border By- Saleemul Huq and Daniel M Kammen Last week, Bangladesh’s Power Development Board (PDB) and India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) announced that they will form a committee to decide whether to build a large coal plant or solar farm in India for additional …
Tackling the environmental challenges in Cox’s Bazar
Having just returned from a scoping mission to Cox’s Bazar to see the environmental situation both inside and outside the Rohingya camps, I am going to share some thoughts on the immediate and long-term needs from an environmental perspective. Before doing so, I would like to pay tribute to the people and government of Bangladesh as well as the international …