(Originally published here) In exchange for including the ambitious target in the final text, developing nations are being pressured to never again mention “loss and damage.” Entering the closing 48 hours of the global climate negotiations, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that “we will not leave the most vulnerable nations among us to quite literally …
Loans or grants for climate finance?
(Article originally published here) As we approach the Paris climate summit in December the topic of climate finance is becoming more pressing. It was a major topic of the recent IMF meeting in Lima, Peru and will require the involvement of ministers of finance rather than environment to make decisions. The good news is that a political commitment of $100 …
Electronic Waste: The Story of Bangladesh
(This article was originally published here) The vision 2021 of becoming “Digital Bangladesh” aims to make our nation stronger through effective use of modern technology on important sectors and areas like education, health, communication and alleviation of poverty levels. This clearly predicates the wider usage of electrical and electronic products throughout the country. Domestic policies aside, a worldwide surge in …
Bangladesh powers ahead on off-grid solar
(This article was originally published by SciDev.Net’s South Asia Desk here) Eight million Bangladeshis now depend on reliable power from small solar units Women technicians handle service and after-sales warranty of home units Bangladesh plans to be generating 220 megawatts of solar energy by 2017 [DHAKA] More than the technology it is the advocacy that allowed the Bright Green Energy …
Using the power of judiciary to protect people from climate change
(This article has been originally published here) Governments must no longer depend on or wait for global policies to act upon climate change. They have a legal duty of care to protect the citizens and international human rights The Hague District Court, in a recent historic landmark decision, decided that the Dutch government is knowingly putting its current and future …
Public Lecture by Sir David King at IUB
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh in collaboration with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a Public Lecture on ‘Contemporary Global Climate Change Debate: Challenges and Prospect’ on Monday, 16 March, 2015 at IUB’s Permanent Campus, in Bashundhara, Dhaka. Sir David King, Climate Change Envoy, UK, was the Key note Speaker. …
ICCCAD-IUB Team’s Field Trip to Vietnam under CapWater Project
Led by Ms. Ina F. Islam, Assistant Director ICCCAD, Mr. Md. Nazmul Chowdhury and Ms. Jennifer Nahar Khan Khadim, two MSc students of Climate Change and Development (CCD) at Independent University, Bangladesh and Ms. Tashrifa Sultana from Institute of Water Modeling are invited by Cologne University of Applied Sciences – Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and …
2014 Resilience Academy: Participant Pledges
The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second year in Germany. All the participants …
Dr. Saleemul Huq selected for UN Climate Summit
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business and civil society to Climate Summit 2014 this 23 September in New York, in order to engage them in a conversation for advancing climate action and ambition across the world. The Summit intends to act as a platform for leaders and experts to put forward ideas and actions …