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Sweden, IUB launch 4-year partnership to strengthen climate action in Bangladesh

By Web editor
2 weeks ago
in :  News, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
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Sweden and Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) have launched a four-year partnership to strengthen climate action in Bangladesh. The Embassy of Sweden in Dhaka and IUB signed the project agreement on Monday (23 January), said a press release. Tanweer Hasan, vice chancellor of IUB, and Maria Stridsman, head of cooperation and deputy head of mission of the Embassy of Sweden in …

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Prof Saleemul Huq named one of Nature’s 10 people who helped shape science in 2022

By Web editor
December 16, 2022
in :  News, Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
270

Bangladeshi scientist Professor Saleemul Huq has made it to the coveted list of people who helped shape the biggest science stories of 2022. Saleemul Huq, a climate researcher, has been recognised for his role in forcing wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. The list prepared by Nature – one of the world’s top science …

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The ways to reinvent climate change adaptation in Bangladesh and beyond

By ICCCAD
October 12, 2022
in :  News, Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
380

Adaptation is more urgent than ever before as climate change-induced catastrophes sweep across the globe, mostly targeting the least developed entities and fragile ecosystems. More urgent, it seems, is the investment and effort needed to implement different types of adaptation to spearhead long-term solutions The global community has been citing Bangladesh as one of the most vulnerable countries ever since …

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Salt tolerant rice varieties bring hope to Bangladesh farmers

By ICCCAD
April 28, 2022
in :  Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
1,064

Salinity intrusion makes thousands of hectares of land barren in coastal Bangladesh  Coastal districts 25% of the country’s rice production.” BRRI-47 first salt-tolerant rice variety Salt-tolerant rice changing fortunes and circumstances across country 5,216 hectares in Satkhira, most climate-affected district, cultivated with BRRI-47 2.86 million hectares of coastal and off-shore arable lands available In the 1970s, Nandi Dulal, a 70-year-old …

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Addressing food security and climate change through regenerative agriculture
Bangladesh needs to gradually transition to regenerative agriculture to curb the impacts of environmental and climate vulnerabilities to ensure food security for a growing population

By ICCCAD
April 25, 2022
in :  Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
889

One of the significant challenges that Bangladesh faces is ensuring food security of a growing population. The most viable and holistic solution to this problem is regenerative agriculture. Although the term may not sound familiar to many, it has become a game-changing initiative to sustain agriculture worldwide.  Regenerative agriculture is a farming system that attempts to conserve soil and contribute …

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

Around 850,000 households and 250,000 hectares of harvestable lands were lost in climate-induced disasters; loss of agricultural land also resulted in crop failure, which increased the price of rice by 30% between 2014 and 2021

By Web editor
March 21, 2022
in :  Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
422

The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group II (WGII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published on February 28, 2022. AR6 by Working Group I, published in August 2021, clearly stated that increasing anthropogenic activities have increased the global mean temperature by over 1°C, resulting in increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The WGII …

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Climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability of Bangladesh: IPCC assessment in the previous reports and situation on the ground

Bangladesh ranks as the 7th most vulnerable country to climate change and has received significant attention in the last IPCC reports including the AR6 WG I report. However, in the upcoming AR6 WGII report the country must receive attention for its remarkable progress in achieving resilience

By Web editor
March 1, 2022
in :  Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) successive reports are the most valued evidence of climate change’s drastic impacts on society, economy, and the natural system. These reports have served to alert laymen and policymakers alike about the changes the world has witnessed over the years and will witness in the future. IPCC reports gather information from three working groups. …

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50 years of cyclone preparedness: Success in saving lives, but not livelihood
Over the past 30 years, the number of cyclone shelters have increased from 400 to 14,000 but it is still insufficient for 35 million living near the coast

By Web editor
February 10, 2022
in :  Newspaper and magazine articles, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
560

Climate change has and will continue to increase the intensity and frequency of global hydro-meteorological events such as cyclones and storm surges. Bangladesh is a country of more than 160 million people, with 35 million people residing near the coastline. Naturally, it is a hotspot for such cyclonic events. Numerous researches have highlighted that, on average, Bangladesh faces the most …

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Climate change impacts are not taking time off because of Covid-19 crisis: Dr Saleemul Huq

By ICCCAD
June 23, 2020
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Interviews, News, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
694

Climate change and disaster risks are increasingly affecting the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) across the world. Bangladesh, a lower- middle-income country which graduated from the LDC status in 2015, is no exception. In this backdrop, the Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests is executing the Formulation and Advancement of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process funded by the …

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‘Climate change is happening faster than it was predicted’
Bangladesh is the only country in the world that has prepared a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, and that is also 10 years ago

By ICCCAD
January 23, 2020
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Interviews, News, THE BUSINESS STANDARD
1,262

Saleemul Huq is a leading climate expert and is the co-author of a number of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. On the eve of an international climate conference in Dhaka, titled “6th Gobeshona: International Conference on Research into Action” The Business Standard has talked with him on a number of burning issues. The interview was done by Shibabrata …

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