Prof Saleemul Huq (ICCCAD & IUB) interviewed by Prof Günther & Prof Karthe (UNU-FLORES) This interview recorded on 10 August 2023 in the run-up to the upcoming Textile Symposium taking place 6 – 7 September 2023 in Dresden (https://go.unu.edu/WMczc).
Over the last few months, I have been saying at different meetings that 2023 will see the beginning of the era of losses and damages from human-induced climate change. I have also been saying that every new day, week, month, and year will bring more climate change impacts, and no country is prepared for what is to come. It was …
Cop27 resulted in the historic decision of setting up a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries, but success depends on a few key actions. Last November, at Cop27 in Egypt, a pivotal decision was unanimously agreed by all countries to establish a funding mechanism to address loss and damages caused by human induced climate change. The process for …
Watched Inside Story series of Al Jazeera where Prof Saleemul Huq’s talking This clip part of Al Jazeera Inside Story series which originally published on Al Jazeera English Youtube Channel. Find the full clip link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gKGcWqzH1Y
Watched Prof Saleemul Huq answered the question on Sky News Climate Show Q&A Expert on Climate Justice. This clip part of Sky News Weekly Climate Show’s Q&A section which originally published on SkyNews Youtube Channel. Find the full clip link– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh4Rhh-BCnA
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. …
Saleemul Huq, one of the most persistent long-term advocates of a ‘loss and damage’ fund on climate change, explores the origins and potential of the breakthrough at the recent COP. For thirty years the vulnerable developing countries led by the small island states had been demanding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the creation of a fund …
The lights are out here in my home city of Dhaka as I write these words. Cyclone Sitrang has knocked out the electricity in Bangladesh’s capital, plunging much of this city of 22 million people into darkness. But one thing we Bangladeshis are not in the dark about is climate change. We understand that overheating the planet has made cyclones—or hurricanes, as …
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is set to take place in Egypt this November. But many of the decisions taken in previous sessions of the COP still remain unimplemented. So what can we expect from COP27? Dr Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), …
Watch the clip where Prof Saleemul Huq speaking to Philanthropies funding Climate Justice in Bonn on 7th June 2022.
