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Just Transition for Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
June 26, 2022
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
1,074

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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Interactions between two existential threats: COVID-19 and climate change

By ICCCAD
September 10, 2021
in :  Journal Article, Publications
623

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are complex existential threats, unpredictable in many ways and unprecedented in modern times. There are parallels between the scale and scope of their impacts and responses. Understanding shared drivers, coupled vulnerabilities, and criteria for effective responses will help societies worldwide prepare for the simultaneous threats of climate change and future pandemics. We summarize …

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Tackling three global emergencies at once

By ICCCAD
May 26, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
736

The world is having to tackle three major emergencies at the same time. The first is obviously the Covid-19 pandemic that is still raging around the world, the second is climate change, which is also getting much worse every year, and finally, there is biodiversity loss, which will mean the loss of up to a million species if we cannot …

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Transforming the Future: Supercharging Action at the UN Food Systems Summit

By ICCCAD
November 15, 2020
in :  Article, Blog, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
2,177

In a time of many seemingly insurmountable challenges, there is something that we can fix. One thing, which if changed could simultaneously accelerate the end of hunger, ensure everyone has access to a healthy diet, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reverse biodiversity loss, and make societies and economies more equitable and resistant to devastating pandemics such as COVID-19. Does that …

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Adaptation finance at the conflux of climate crisis, Covid-19 and debt distress

By ICCCAD
October 14, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Mizan R khan Articles, News
1,381

Covid-19 has hit all countries of the world, both rich and poor, but the low income countries (LICs) are hit hardest, and half of them are at high risk of or are already in debt distress. Although in April this year, the G20 Finance Ministers endorsed a Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) to grant temporary relief to the LICs to …

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Isiolo County, Kenya: Local Radio Stations Aid in Creating Awareness on COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence

By ICCCAD
September 14, 2020
in :  Voices from the Frontline
1,996

In Isiolo County, in the former Eastern Province of Kenya, ethnic women are disseminating awareness-related information on COVID-19 and gender-based violence through the use of local radio stations. David Nangaa Silakan reports This is the fifteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Isiolo County is home to several pastoralist communities, notably …

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Crafting image in an age of electronic globalisation

By ICCCAD
July 23, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Mizan R khan Articles, News
1,261

Recently, quite a number of reports have been published in both national and foreign media outlets about how two healthcare providers in Bangladesh issued fake Covid-19 certificates. Obviously, the negative coverage has tarnished the image of our nation abroad. We have had reports that the foreign minister had chaired a high-level, inter-ministerial meeting to discuss the immediate ramifications of these …

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We must listen to the voices from the frontlines of the pandemic

By ICCCAD
July 22, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
942

One of the distinguishing features of the global Covid-19 pandemic has been to expose who the frontline workers around the world are and who the frontline victims of the pandemic are, both from the public health perspective and as a result of the impact of lockdown measures. In the developed countries, it has been the health workers in hospitals and …

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Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city

By ICCCAD
July 16, 2020
in :  Article
1,202

The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as far more than a health crisis for the world’s poor and marginalised, exposing faultlines in food systems around the world. The UN’s World Food Programme warned in early July that 270 million people will face food insecurity before the end of 2020. Our ongoing research in Mongla, a small coastal city of 106,000 people in southwestern Bangladesh, is …

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Addressing inequalities in the time of COVID-19: collaborations we need to create a new normal where no one is left behind

By ICCCAD
July 15, 2020
in :  Blog
2,058

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to communities across the globe, the containment measures taken to curb the impacts by governments have directly and indirectly been socially and economically devastating.  Initially branded as an equalizer for immediate heath impacts, the pandemic has soon proved to bring in stark social and economic inequalities to the most vulnerable. People particularly in developing countries, …

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