Training Manual: NAP and NDC Support Programme International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and AMBERO Consulting, Germany in collaboration with GIZ have developed a training manual on “Managing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Foundations for Policymakers” under the NAP NDC Support Programme commissioned by BMZ. A total of 12 training modules have been developed on key aspects of climate …
Water Security in Secondary Cities of Bangladesh: A case of Mongla
The water crisis issue in informal settlements should be looked through a lens of System of Provision (SoP), which aims to ensure inclusive urban settlements and strengthen central water system for secondary cities like Mongla and promote social awareness.” About the Authors: Khandker Tarin Tahsin, Lutfor Rahman & Md Bodrud-Doza This article published on Development Letters on its July-August 2022 …
COP27: Historic shift towards loss and damage financing
The UN climate talks COP27, which closed in Egypt on Saturday, started addressing the symptoms of the climate crisis in a breakthrough decision for the most vulnerable. A historic progress was made with a commitment to set up a financial support structure for the most vulnerable to deal with “loss and damage” caused by the impact of the climate crisis …
COP27: A historic shift towards setting-up a loss and damage financial structure
COP27 process represents a historic moment for loss and damage (L&D) since this is the first time the issue was adopted into the agenda and approved in the same year and am not sure if this has ever been the case within any UN negotiating process, said Saber H Chowdhury, president of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of …
COP27: Focus shift towards setting up Loss and Damage Financial Structure
Little was done to address the causes of global warming
The UN climate talks COP27 closed in Egypt on Saturday started to address the symptoms of the climate crisis in a breakthrough decision for the most vulnerable. A historic progress was made with a commitment to set up for a financial support structure for the most vulnerable to deal with “Loss and Damage” caused by the impact of the climate …
The good climate finance guide for investing in locally led adaptation
Locally led adaptation (LLA) is an approach which seeks to ensure that local people have individual and collective agency over defining, prioritising, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating adaptation actions. LLA is grounded in the belief that people who are on the frontline of climate risks are best placed to respond to both current and future impacts of climate change. Local …
From Framing to Financing #LossAndDamage
COP after COP, the global climate action community or the ‘Conference of Parties’ as it is officially called, has made endless efforts to define, measure, and attribute Loss and Damage. From Agreement to Protocol, from Mechanism and Network to Conference and Declaration to Dialogue1, we have been only discussing and asserting the need for climate action. Even the science2 of …
OPINION:COP27 will be the first U.N. climate summit in the era of loss and damage
The upcoming talks must agree to set up a funding facility to help countries deal with the growing harm caused by climate change impacts It has now been 30 years since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1972 – and we are about to hold …
The CDL Field Guide To Obstruction of Loss and Damage Finance in the UNFCCC Negotiations
The Climate and Development Lab at Brown University, USA, teamed up with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh to develop a typology of 14 ways developed nations have resisted efforts by the developing world to create funding mechanisms under the UNFCCC to pay for losses and damages resulting from climate change. Developed nations bear most of …
INTRODUCTORY MEETING OF THE NATIONAL PLATFORM ON LOCALLY-LED ADAPTATION (NPLLA)
MESSAGES FOR COP 27
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