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Remembering and honoring a champion of loss and damage

Saleemul Huq devoted his life’s work to advocating the world’s most climate-vulnerable communities

By ICCCAD
May 24, 2024
in :  News
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Saleemul Huq, an expert in the field of climate change, environment and development, devoted his life’s work to advocating the world’s most climate-vulnerable communities. While he did not live to see his work come to fruition last year at COP28, his legacy will live on in the breakthrough progress and momentum made on Loss and Damage. This week, the UAE …

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UAE president honours Prof Saleemul Huq, others

By ICCCAD
May 23, 2024
in :  News
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United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan yesterday bestowed the First Class Order of Zayed II on several global dignitaries including late Bangladeshi Professor Saleemul Huq in recognition of their contributions to the success of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) hosted by the UAE late last year. …

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‘To Do or Not To Do’ after COP28

By Web editor
January 17, 2024
in :  Daily Star Article, News, Saqib Huq media
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By now there have been many analysis pieces written about COP28 and the successes or failures it has delivered. This is partly due to a Conference of Parties (COP) final decision document which can be hundreds of pages long, with complexities on many articles (chapters of the decision), specific wordings and language that is finally decided (the severity of the …

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New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it

By ICCCAD
November 30, 2023
in :  Blog, Interviews, News
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New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it Climate finance for adaptation projects is delivered through a chain comprising actors that provide the funds, intermediaries that allocate those funds and local communities and organisations that implement projects with the money they receive. But not enough money is reaching local …

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Empathy: A Key Enabler for Harnessing Effective Community-centered Adaptation

By ICCCAD
November 30, 2023
in :  Blog, News
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The following article is an outcome of the four-day long workshop titled “Building Bridges for Community-Centered Climate Resilience” organized by East-West Center and Rockefeller Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 3-7, 2023. Overview The impact of human-induced climate change is one of the greatest challenges of today’s time, affecting the communities living on the frontline across different geographic boundaries. Local …

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Movement mourns ‘driving force for climate justice’ Saleemul Huq

By Web editor
November 7, 2023
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media, In Memories of Prof Huq, News
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Bangladeshi scientist and campaigner Saleemul Huq attended every UN climate summit and championed the cause of developing countries Veteran Bangladeshi climate scientist and campaigner Saleemul Huq died on Sunday at the age of 71. After the think tank he directed announced his death, tributes poured in from climate campaigners, diplomats, scientists and others. The head of the Climate Action Network, …

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In 2023 we’ve seen climate destruction in real time, yet rich countries are poised to do little at Cop28

By ICCCAD
November 2, 2023
in :  News
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As another big climate conference looms and global ‘loss and damage’ takes hold, we must keep pressure on the biggest emitters Prof Saleemul Huq died on 28 October, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was 71. This is his final piece of writing After recent historic floods and wildfires, the staggering toll of climate change is becoming increasingly evident. Yet despite these intensifying disasters, there …

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‘A titan of the climate movement’: tributes pour in for Saleemul Huq

Huq, ‘a visionary and climate champion’, who was named one of the top 10 scientists in the world by Nature last year, has died at 71


By ICCCAD
November 1, 2023
in :  In Memories of Prof Huq, News
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Tributes have poured in from around for world for the renowned Bangladeshi scientist Prof Saleemul Huq, who died on 29 October. Huq, 71, was an acclaimed academic, a relentless climate activist and the director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), a research and capacity-building organisation in Bangladesh. Shahab Uddin, the Bangladeshi minister of environment, forest and …

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Saleemul Huq was and will remain one of our strongest voices for the climate

By ICCCAD
November 1, 2023
in :  In Memories of Prof Huq, News, Opinion
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The fight against climate change is difficult even at the best of times. But this week began with the loss of one of the foremost warriors in this fight. My first encounter with the maverick, Dr Saleemul Huq, happened about a decade ago. I had already been working for many years in the remotest, most vulnerable and unaddressed communities in …

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Tribute To Prof Saleemul Huq: A towering scholar of exceptional brilliance

By ICCCAD
October 30, 2023
in :  News
635

The fact that he was one of the leading global experts on climate change and an integral part of  nearly every international and regional group of any worth anywhere  is something one would never know by talking to him. He was as modest as he was brilliant. He was extremely self-effacing and shy to the extent of  being, some would …

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