(Originally published here) Money for fighting climate change was in focus at the closing session of Gobeshona – an annual Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh. The conference provided the opportunity for international and multi-stakeholder participants to engage with a wide range of Bangladesh-specific climate change research. John Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at …

(Originally published here) I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used …

(Originally published here) The climate change research community in Bangladesh, which consists of several dozen organisations, including public and private universities, national and international research organisations, Government and NGOs as well as some private sector organisations, came together over two years ago to form a collective platform for climate change knowledge generation and use in Bangladesh called “Gobeshona” ( the …

Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD spoke to the fastest growing English daily in Bangladesh, Dhaka Tribune about the status of climate change research in Bangladesh, the reasons behind it and the way forward. The conversation was focused on the Gobeshona platform and the upcoming Gobeshona conference. The full interview can be accessed in the link provided below: Dr. Saleemul Huq’s Interview …