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Home Tag Archives: SDGs

Tag Archives: SDGs

How do we reach 2030 climate goals?

By ICCCAD
January 5, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
883

The year 2030 is the target year for the world to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations. In addition to the SDGs, 2030 is also the year by which all countries party to the Paris Agreement on climate change must keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius, as well as achieve the …

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Capturing the demographic dividend while tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
February 5, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
1,178

Bangladesh, quite rightly, has aspirations to meet the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the Climate Change goals by 2030, and then to graduate into being a middle income country by 2041. It is commonly acknowledged that the key to achieving both these goals lies in educating and empowering the young girls and boys who will become the …

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Bangladesh can lead the way

By ICCCAD
July 21, 2019
in :  Dhaka Tribune Articles, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
3,803

Finding solutions to the global problem of climate change Last week, Bangladesh hosted a major global climate change meeting in Dhaka, hosted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with Ban Ki-moon, former secretary general of the United Nations, Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva from the World Bank, and President Heine of the Marshall Islands present. The visiting dignitaries all praised the role …

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How long-term planning can work

By ICCCAD
September 19, 2018
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
3,477

Bangladesh has a strong tradition of medium term planning through the periodic Five Year Plans, of which we are now in the 7th Plan. At the same time, the country has a large number of professional planners both within the Planning Commission as well as embedded within the Planning Department of every ministry who help develop the sectoral plans for …

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CREATING COMMON VISIONS

By ICCCAD
December 20, 2017
in :  News, SDGs
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CREATING COMMON VISIONS: Building pathways to ‘zero-zero’ – a low-carbon, hunger-free Bangladesh Researchers and practitioners will assist stakeholders and decision-makers identify pathways to a low-carbon, hunger-free Bangladesh. A new project in Bangladesh has brought together environment and development researchers and practitioners from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, Oxfam Great Britain and Oxfam Bangladesh and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development …

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How Bangladesh can achieve SDG 13 and climate change goals

By ICCCAD
May 21, 2017
in :  Daily Star Article
4,294

At the turn of the century, under the United Nations, all countries agreed to try to achieve a set of ten Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Bangladesh was relatively successful at achieving most of them. Since then, all countries have negotiated and agreed upon a set of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Besides the …

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Time to look inwards

By ICCCAD
December 8, 2016
in :  Daily Star Article
2,835

In 2015, the world made two major global agreements, first in September in New York on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and then on climate change under the Paris Agreement in December . Both these global agreements have the same fifteen year timeline for their implementation, i.e. by 2030. However, in each developing country there are two very distinct and …

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2016: A new beginning for the world and Bangladesh

By ICCCAD
January 24, 2016
in :  Daily Star Article
2,462

(Originally published here) The year 2015 that has just ended has been a landmark year for both the development as well as climate change discourse at the global level as three major agreements were reached under the United Nations. The first was the Sendai agreement on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) that was achieved in March 2015 in Sendai, Japan, the …

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The Green Thread

By ICCCAD
September 18, 2015
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media
3,190

(Article originally published here) On September 25, at the UN General Assembly in New York, government leaders will agree to “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts” as they sign on to the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — setting the global-development agenda for the next 15 years. It is good to see that climate action and …

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Climate change disaster reduction planning: moving from periphery to centre

By ICCCAD
August 28, 2015
in :  Dhaka Tribune Articles
2,777

(This article was originally posted here)   Climate change is a clear and present danger, forcing countries to evolve their policies constantly to keep up, participants at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction said today.  “It’s clear that climate change is going to have dramatic consequences for disaster risk reduction, particularly for poorer countries,” said Mr. Phil Evans, Government …

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