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Locally Led Transformative Action to Address Loss & Damage: ICCCAD’S Nexus Approach

By Fauzia web admin
1 day ago
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
106

Globally, people are disproportionally affected by climate change consistently and are enforced to adapt, with or without external assistance. Nonetheless, the current mitigation and adaptation efforts have been deemed insufficient to resist losses and damages (L&D), particularly in vulnerable countries from the Global South. Amongst this countries, mainly women, people with disability, and other marginalized communities with less adaptive capacity, …

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Scaling up locally led adaptation in Bangladesh: three action areas

By ICCCAD
May 23, 2023
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
359

Although highly climate vulnerable, Bangladesh in South Asia is known as a pioneer of climate change adaptation. Recent national policies have recognised the vital importance of community-based and locally led adaptation (LLA). Where LLA interventions have been used by international and national nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), they have proven to be both effective and widely accepted by local communities. Yet major …

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Non-economic loss and damage: closing the knowledge gap

By ICCCAD
January 17, 2023
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
718

Climate-related loss and damage is escalating, with many countries experiencing new forms of climate impact, of increasing intensity. The focus until now has been on calculating the economic repercussions of climate risk. Its wider impacts and resulting hidden costs of climate change — such as loss of cultural heritage — are less understood and harder to quantify. This knowledge gap …

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Just Transition for Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
June 26, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
2,017

Executive Summary In recent years, the just transition to a low carbon economy, supporting climate resilient development has become an issue of global concern for all the right reasons. The response measures to address climate change through switching to a cleaner energy mix and enhancing the adaptive capacity of society – businesses, workplaces and communities will entail significant disruptions particularly, …

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Operationalization of the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage: Road to COP 27

By ICCCAD
June 5, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
2,296

The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage (SNLD) was established at COP25/CMA2, “as part of the Warsaw International Mechanism,…for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, to catalyse the technical assistance of relevant organizations, bodies, networks and experts, for the implementation of relevant approaches at the local, national and regional level, in …

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Glasgow Dialogue needs to deliver on Loss and Damage Finance Facility

By ICCCAD
June 5, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
713

With a 1 degree increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels, climate change is already causing mayhem in different parts of the world. The term Loss and Damage (capitalised letters) refers to the political debate under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) following the establishment of the Warsaw Mechanism for Loss and Damage in 2013, which is to …

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What does the IPCC Working Group II say about Bangladesh in its Sixth Assessment Report?

By ICCCAD
March 16, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
2,243

In March and April 2017 Bangladesh experienced drastic floods which affected 220,000 ha of nearly ready to be harvested summer paddy crop and resulted in almost a 30% year on year increase in paddy prices. An attribution study of those pre-monsoon extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh concluded that anthropogenic climate change doubled the likelihood of the extreme rainfall events resulting …

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CLIMATE-RESILIENT MIGRANT-FRIENDLY TOWNS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

By ICCCAD
January 10, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
2,095

For the last few years, ever increasing climate change impacts resulting from the new normal of extreme events are becoming a rude fact of life around the world.  The findings of the Working Group-1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in August 2021 again provides mortal warnings about the impending climate crisis. The impacts are particularly stark …

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How the theme of Adaptation and Resilience marginalizes Loss and Damage and why we must focus on addressing loss and damage

By ICCCAD
April 20, 2021
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
2,503

Despite repeated calls for Loss and Damage1 to be reflected prominently in the themes of COP 26, the UK presidency continues to champion Adaptation and Resilience as a key theme of COP 26, alongside clean road transport, energy transition, finance and nature. In its description of the importance of adaptation and resilience, the website for the COP 26 presidency does …

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RESILIENCE OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES: LESSONS FROM COVID-19

By ICCCAD
January 17, 2021
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
1,162

Executive Summary We provide a first assessment on how 15 local communities in the Global South are building resilience in the face of COVID-19. We found that communities used many different coping strategies, spanning multiple social domains of resilience, when responding to a crisis. Social domains of resilience not only imply communities having access to capital, but also that people …

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