Despite global pledges to end deforestation, forest loss continues. Focusing on mangrove forests in South and Southeast Asia, we advocate placing indigenous peoples and local communities at the heart of implementation of the COP26 Deforestation Pledge and provide five recommendations for how this can be achieved. Graphical abstract

Despite loss and damage from human-induced climate change getting attention at COP26, there has been little action to avert, minimize, and address the loss and damage experienced by those bearing the brunt of climate change. Climate change impacts everyone, but people will not all face this challenge in the same way, as its impacts are unevenly distributed. We need to …

The Regional Resilience Hub at COP26 was home to the Race to Resilience (R2R) campaign connecting people, communities, organizations, and non-state actors driving climate action. The program was led by hubs from around South Asia, Latin America, Africa, South East Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific to bring local experience and knowledge on building resilience to impacts of climate. The …

At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last November, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, speaking on behalf of 55 vulnerable developing countries under the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), put forward a demand to set up a facility to finance loss and damage from human-induced climate change. This demand was included in the draft of the Glasgow …

I have written about the need to ramp up adaptation in order to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change around the world, as lead author on adaptation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for over a decade. So the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC containing that message was nothing new. However, what was new and …

Watch the webinar  “Building on the outcomes of COP26: Priority Climate Actions Ahead of COP27” Hosted by UNB Originally this webinar recordings published on United News of Bangladesh Event Page.

On 9 August 2021, the science working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report showed that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1°C of warming since 1850-1900. Climate change is not just what is happening now and will happen in the future but also what has been happening for over a century. Today …

World leaders, delegates from the nation countries recently gathered in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) hosted in partnership between the UK and Italy in November 2021 in Glasgow to agree on a path forward for tackling global warming. Parties debated over the issues on net zero-emission, Loss and Damage, Mitigation and Adaptation, Finance, Transparency to develop a common understanding. …

The Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended a few weeks ago. Its outcomes have received mixed reviews by observers and media. Some have touted it as a success, or partially successful and some others have dubbed it as a failure. I think the level of success or failure depends on the …

  ‘Loss and Damage’ (L&D) is a term used in climate negotiations to describe the unavoidable effects of climate change which has become increasingly evident in recent years, such as severe storms, major wildfires, frequent floods, heatwaves, droughts and so on. This year, at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26), L&D emerged as a significant point …