Under the UN, reduction of emissions(mitigation) and resilience (adapting to climate change impacts) are often treated as two discrete areas. But as the world is already experiencing the impacts of climate change — such as the recent ‘super cyclone’ and flooding in Bangladesh, or the wildfires in Australia — we are going to have to adapt our infrastructure to be …
Women’s frontier in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
(This article was originally published here) The options to earn a living in Buddhamari village, where Mahera lives, are limited and full of peril. The Mongla upazilla in the Bagerhat district where the village is located suffers from high salinity which makes fishing, crab farming, collecting, and selling fuel wood from the Sundarbans some of the few livelihood options. Croplands …
Setting up a regional network for disaster risk management in Southeast and South Asia
The workshop in Yogyakarta brought together representatives from academia, UN organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as the private sector from ten countries with the aim to establishing a regional network for disaster risk management in Southeast and South Asia. The main objectives of the workshop were to define common areas of interest in the field of disaster risk …