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Home Tag Archives: Tackling climate change

Tag Archives: Tackling climate change

Time for Bangladesh to scale up investment in climate diplomacy

By ICCCAD
August 31, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
436

As the world is currently in the era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change, the need for Bangladesh to invest in different aspects of the issue at the global level has also entered a new era which will need significant investment in enhancing our capacities for climate diplomacy in different platforms. Let’s start with the annual Conferences of …

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Role of Private sector in tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
August 10, 2021
in :  Climate Tribune, Newspaper and magazine articles
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Vulnerable countries take the lead in tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
July 14, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
880

Last week, Bangladesh hosted the climate finance summit called by the nearly 50 vulnerable developing countries that are part of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), which is chaired by Bangladesh for the current two-year term. The summit was moderated by the former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, who is the CVF Ambassador for Ambition, and was opened by Prime …

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From vulnerability to resilience to prosperity

Transforming the narrative of tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
June 16, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,714

The development gains and hard-earned productivity of Bangladesh are at risk of being inverted if the 1.5 degree Celsius limit of the Paris Agreement is breached. To that end, it remains imperative to equip vulnerable communities, key sectors and the government with vital instruments to bring about resilience and stability for all. At the end of last year, Bangladesh’s Prime …

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Bangladesh’s climate diplomacy needs to take a whole-of-society approach

By ICCCAD
May 5, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,575

One can argue that the issue of tackling climate change in Bangladesh has already achieved a whole-of-government approach, and is also rapidly moving towards a whole-of-society approach. However, our international diplomacy on tackling climate change also needs to develop both approaches. What do these two terms mean, and how are they being rolled out? The whole-of-government approach means that not …

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On President Biden’s Climate Summit and John Kerry’s visit to Dhaka

By ICCCAD
April 14, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,017

US President Biden’s first act upon being sworn in as President on January 20, 2021, was to officially notify the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that he was withdrawing former President Trump’s withdrawal letter from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and that the United States was rejoining the Paris Agreement. He has since followed this up …

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Science and solidarity are key for tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
March 24, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,270

As we are now well into the second decade of this century, it is widely acknowledged that this coming decade is our last opportunity to keep the increasing rate of the global atmospheric temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius and prevent the catastrophic impacts of human-induced climate change from occurring around the world. This is a very clear message from the …

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A crucial decade for tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
January 6, 2021
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,194

As we welcome the new year of 2021, we also enter a new decade that will culminate with 2030, a year that marks an end point for some very important goals and milestones for the world. For one, it will mark the final year for all the countries to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the …

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Four lessons from Covid-19 pandemic for tackling climate change

By ICCCAD
August 15, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,917

The global Covid-19 pandemic is now just over half a year old and arguably still in its early stages. However, there are already a few key lessons that are emerging when evaluating the responses of different countries to this public health emergency, which are relevant for tackling the much longer-term and much bigger emergency of climate change. The first lesson …

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Tackling global climate change

By ICCCAD
February 12, 2020
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, News
1,351

The year 2020 is going to be remembered for a long time to come as being a pivotal year in the global war against human induced climate change. This new decade will be crucial in determining whether or not we will be able to successfully tackle what is morphing from a climate change problem into a full-fledged climate change emergency. …

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