Dr Saleemul Huq has participated in the international climate negotiations since their inception in 1992, and has been named among the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019’ for making a positive difference. In an interview with the Dhaka Tribune’s Syed Samiul Basher Anik, Dr Huq – director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent …

I just arrived in freezing Katowice in Poland for COP24 and even before the COP started, attended a pre-COP strategy meeting on Loss and Damage for the four negotiating groups that are amongst the most Vulnerable. Namely the LDC Group, Africa, AOSIS and AILAC. The meeting which was organised by ICCCAD with support from Mercy Corps went very well and …

Dr. Saleemul Huq handing over award on behalf of University Press Ltd. to Hugh Brammer  for there 40 years anniversary . After that Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of ICCCAD Delivered his speech at Climate Change And Development Seminar Series hosted by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University, UK .  The Seminar was held on Monday 16 April 2018 …

The journey is not an easy one but we can get there if the people, and the public and private sectors work together. The global develop- ment discourse is constantly evolving over time. Sometimes we use different terms to mean the same thing. The buzzwords “green growth” and “green development” are two such interchangeable terms that are currently trending in …

  Photo:Abu Siddique At CBA11 in Uganda, there were a number of participants from Bangladesh including from BRAC, Transparency International Bangladesh, and Practical Action The series of international conferences on community based adaptation (CBA) was started in Bangladesh over a decade ago with the first few conferences held in Bangladesh and then they started being held in different countries including Tanzania, …

(This article was originally published on Elders.org, available here) The twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in Lima, Peru over the next twelve days, marks well over two decades of global negotiations to tackle the problem of human induced climate change. Significantly for me, it is also the twentieth …

(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here). What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much? For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion.  At the nineteenth Conference of Parties (COP19) of the United Nations …