(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here) Typhoon-hit Filipinos are paying with their lives for climate change. A levy on fossil fuels could help protect them The residents of the Philippines region of Tacloban know what loss and damage from climate change looks like. This weekend, this exact same region is now bracing for super typhoon Hagupit, due to hit …
Follow Dr. Saleemul Huq’s daily video log from COP20
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD is currently in Lima attending COP20 running from 1-12 December 2014. He will be providing regular video logs from there, the links to which will be posted here. You can also find the videos on IIED’s YouTube site. He will also be providing his views on his Twitter. For more information, visit here. Day 1 …
No time for another Copenhagen
(This article was originally published on Elders.org, available here) The twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in Lima, Peru over the next twelve days, marks well over two decades of global negotiations to tackle the problem of human induced climate change. Significantly for me, it is also the twentieth …
The case for mitigation
(This article was originially published on The Daily Star here) In my previous column I had argued that while adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change should be the priority of Bangladesh when it comes to shorter term action domestically, mitigation mattered much more in the longer term at the global level as a 4 degree Centigrade global temperature rise …
Loss and damage: a guide for the confused
(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here). What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much? For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion. At the nineteenth Conference of Parties (COP19) of the United Nations …