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SALEEMUL HUQ: Climate revolutionary

By ICCCAD
December 14, 2022
in :  Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Publications
528

This climate researcher from Bangladesh helped to force wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. In the final hours before the close of last month’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt, exhausted delegates slumped on sofas outside the formal meeting rooms. But not Saleemul Huq, who was sitting upright, rapidly checking messages on his phone. …

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What Bangladesh must do now as a global climate leader

By ICCCAD
December 7, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
219

The recent agreement by all countries to establish a new fund for loss and damage from human-induced climate change at COP27 was a simple recognition of an unfortunate reality that has existed for a long time. The reality is that the impacts that are now scientifically attributable to global temperature rise are now happening every day around the world, and …

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Access to water services in informal settlements in Mongla, Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
November 16, 2022
in :  Blog
781

Globally, 24% of the urban population lives in informal settlements. Such settlements often have inadequate essential services, including housing, water, sanitation, energy, transportation and communications. In Bangladesh, 47.2% of the population lives in urban informal settlements. According to the World Health Organization, 60% of people in Bangladesh are forced to drink contaminated water, many of whom live in urban informal settlements. Thus the lack of availability …

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Local responses to climate-related non-economic losses and damages: a case study in Burigoalini and Gabura Union, Southwest Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
October 15, 2022
in :  Publications, Working Paper
292

People in Burigoalini and Gabura Unions frequently face climate-related hazards. Adequate adaptation measures to these hazards are often missing, causing losses and damages. This paper focuses on non-economic losses and damages: items that are not commonly traded in markets (such as the loss of biodiversity or cultural heritage). The non-economic losses and damages that people in Burigoalini and Gabura Unions …

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A ceaseless cycle of debt

Financial struggles in the coastal region of Bangladesh

By Web editor
May 18, 2022
in :  Climate Tribune, Dhaka Tribune Articles
420

People in the coastal regions of Bangladesh are stuck in an unending cycle of having to rebuild their lives destroyed due to recurring flooding and cyclones. The affected people have been running on credit to get back on their feet and struggling to settle while their living conditions are being threatened every time there is a flood or cyclone. The …

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Are we ready to tackle the heat?

Temperature peaks and heat waves impacts in the Bangladeshi context

By Web editor
May 18, 2022
in :  Climate Tribune, Dhaka Tribune Articles
941

The global temperature hike is leading to frequent heat waves (Tmax > 40C for at least two to five consecutive days) events that have dire consequences on human health and well-being. According to the recently published sixth assessment report (AR6) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global surface temperature from 2001-2021 was estimated to be 0.99C (0.84C-1.10C) …

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‘Bangladesh is a nano-emitter globally but the emissions have serious impacts on the local level’

By ICCCAD
August 22, 2021
in :  Dhaka Tribune Articles, Dr Mizan R khan Articles, Interviews
772

Interview with Prof Mizan R Khan To preface this issue of Climate Tribune — which looks at some aspects of the role of the private sector in climate change — we interviewed one of the leading experts in climate change policy in the country Professor Mizan R Khan. Deputy Director with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), …

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Bangladesh takes another step towards tackling global climate change

By ICCCAD
September 9, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,773

During July last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted the Global Commission on Adaptation meeting in Dhaka attended by the co-chairs of the Commission, former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and Kristalina Georgiva, head of the International Monetary Fund. During the bilateral discussion between the Prime Minister and Ban Ki-moon, she offered to host the regional centre …

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Changing dynamics of livelihood dependence on ecosystem services at temporal and spatial scales: An assessment in the southern wetland areas of Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
November 1, 2019
in :  Journal Article, Publications
1,320

Highlights • Rural livelihoods are intrinsically connected with seasonal climate fluctuations. • Rural livelihoods get more economic benefits from the local ecosystem services (ES) during monsoon and post-monsoon months. • Livelihoods of ES dependent are vulnerable in the pre-monsoon season. • Communities are increasingly diversifying their livelihood strategies to non-ES sectors. • Non-ES dependent livelihoods enjoy increasingly better economic security. …

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Bangladesh can lead the way

By ICCCAD
July 21, 2019
in :  Dhaka Tribune Articles, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
3,659

Finding solutions to the global problem of climate change Last week, Bangladesh hosted a major global climate change meeting in Dhaka, hosted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with Ban Ki-moon, former secretary general of the United Nations, Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva from the World Bank, and President Heine of the Marshall Islands present. The visiting dignitaries all praised the role …

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