Climate Tribune | September 2022 Articles in the series ‘Financing climate adaptation at the last mile’ by Abdullah Zahiruddin Ahmad ‘Global goal on adaptation’s potential to incorporate local communities’ voices’ by Afsara Mirza and Md Bodrud-Doza Zion ‘Evolution of LLA: How locally- led adaptation came into the climate change arena’ by Fatema Akhter, Dr. Saleemul Huq and Afsara Binte Mirza …
Climate Tribune | August 2022 Articles in the series ‘Climate education for Bangladeshi children: Necessity or luxury?’ by Aruba Faruque ‘Women empowerment in Climate Change’ by Farhin Rahman Reeda and Nazmus Sakib ‘Youth engagement in the climate change policy arena of Bangladesh’ by Afsara Binte Mirza and Masrura Tahiat ‘No more excuses for Loss and Damage’ by Ineza Umuhoza Grace ‘The role of “EcoNetwork” for spreading environmental knowledge …
Climate Tribune | July 2022 Articles in the series “Effective adaptation for avoiding maladaptation” by Khandker Tarin Tahsin and Md Bodrud-Doza “The mud houses of rural Shyamnagar battling climatic hazards” by Sumaiya Binte Anwar ‘The need of the hour” by S M Saify Iqbal “Progress and problems” by Roshni Islam “How Padma bridge contributes in strengthening the resilience for the southwestern coastal …
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP2100) Youth Action Track (YAT) is a program designed by Wageningen University (Netherlands) and the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), funded by the Netherlands, to link Bangladeshi young professionals to the BDP2100. Youth were connected to professionals and practitioners working on BDP2100 through dialogue and seminars, and were stimulated to contribute their suggestions …
What the climate crisis requires is action, not more words
In September last year, my organization YouthNet for Climate Justice, facilitated a joint oversight visit with parliamentarians and youth groups in the climate-affected areas of Bangladesh to observe the ground realities. As part of this field visit, we hosted some climate dialogues and heard the voices on the frontlines. Among many of the community people who faced the negative consequences …
Gender is a critical component of discussions over climate action
In the parlance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “losses and damages” refer broadly to harm from observed climate change impacts (past and current) and projected risks (future). The recent IPCC AR6 WGII report states that “observed mortality and losses due to floods and droughts are much greater for regions with high vulnerability and vulnerable populations such as the …
Early warning systems and their transformational approach to saving lives
Practical Action has been working on flood risk management for many years and is interested to explore with local people what can be done to reduce the losses and damages as a result of flooding hitting the poorest, and the most vulnerable communities in Bangladesh. In 2018, we started working with the flood vulnerable communities of Faridpur in south-central Bangladesh. …
Our political leaders can no longer ignore that we live in the era of Loss & Damage and extreme climate impacts necessarily represent the organization’s mission and program priorities
As the third pillar of action under the Paris Agreement, efforts to address Loss and Damage have been primarily framed as a politically divisive yet technically focused domain in the climate regime. In reality, it is the very essence of climate justice based on the economic and non-economic damages disproportionately suffered by communities, particularly in poor and vulnerable countries and …
Let 2022 be the year when the issue of L&D from human-induced climate change is recognized with utmost urgency and importance
Loss and damage from human induced climate change has been around as early as 1991, when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) called for a mechanism that would help to compensate countries affected by the rise in sea levels. Despite its long lingering history, why does the issue of L&D stand out in today’s climate scenario? Heavy rains swept …
Researchers and actors in the policy discourse need to recognize how personal and traumatic loss and damage is in many cases
Loss and damage from anthropogenic climate change is now a rapidly expanding debate on climate justice and injustices. The strong currents of discussion at COP26 in Glasgow last year were mostly below the surface of the formal negotiations. The loss and damage debate has moved on and holds that there is no longer room for any serious doubt that anthropogenic …