(This article has been originally published here) Governments must no longer depend on or wait for global policies to act upon climate change. They have a legal duty of care to protect the citizens and international human rights The Hague District Court, in a recent historic landmark decision, decided that the Dutch government is knowingly putting its current and future …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh in collaboration with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a Public Lecture on ‘Contemporary Global Climate Change Debate: Challenges and Prospect’ on Monday, 16 March, 2015 at  IUB’s Permanent Campus, in Bashundhara, Dhaka. Sir David King, Climate Change Envoy, UK, was the Key note Speaker. …

Led by Ms. Ina F. Islam, Assistant Director ICCCAD, Mr. Md. Nazmul Chowdhury and Ms. Jennifer Nahar Khan Khadim, two MSc students of Climate Change and Development (CCD) at Independent University, Bangladesh and Ms. Tashrifa Sultana from Institute of Water Modeling are invited by Cologne University of Applied Sciences – Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and …

The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second year in Germany. All the participants …

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business and civil society to Climate Summit 2014 this 23 September in New York, in order to engage them in a conversation for advancing climate action and ambition across the world. The Summit intends to act as a platform for leaders and experts to put forward ideas and actions …