2020 BACS Highlights
- Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) in South Asia: Activities, Outcome and Impacts
21 January 2020, Gobeshona6 International Conference, Independent University, Bangladesh
To share the overall project overview of CSRD in supporting climate services among different tiers of agriculture, this session was held. The session was followed by multiple presentation in bullet formats and briefly discussed Climate Information and Farmers’ Decision-Making Frameworks, addressing diseases and early warning system, climate information system and PICSA. CSRD’s activities were highly encouraged by the participants and panelists for their contribution in the agriculture sector of Bangladesh. Participants also recommended to provide information on tidal surge, higher accessibility to BMD’s forecast information and need of capacity building initiative to adapt to climate services.
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- Bangladesh Academy for Climate Services (BACS) and its Vision: A Model for Exploring Climate Services
23 January, 2020, Gobeshona6 International Conference, Independent University, Bangladesh
To share the BACS initiative with wider communities of climate sensitive sectors, this session was held at the 6th Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka. The session was inaugurated by 3 presentations on the overview of climate services and the national academy of climate services, followed by a brief description of FOREWARN network. Afterwards, a panel discussion was held to discuss the future potentials of BACS in different sectors through a coordinated manner and how national level policy integration can benefit the country in broader perspective in adapt to climate risks and threats.
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