The idea of support for vulnerable countries that experience loss and damage (L&D) from climate change is nothing new, and countries have been proposing such an arrangement from the beginning of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. Pressure to institutionalize a UNFCCC mechanism on L&D has increased in response to the shortcomings of mitigation policy and the …
International action on loss and damage from climate change is lagging behind the rising frequency and escalating intensity of real impacts. As the Executive Committee members of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) begin to implement the Lima Work Programme on Loss and Damage agreed upon at COP20, an operational definition of loss and damage will enable and guide the next steps. Submission of an …
(Originally published here) As countries are preparing for the next set of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in France in December this year, there are many other meetings between countries taking place to identify areas of collaboration, either bilaterally or in smaller groups or in coalitions-of-the-willing. The Government of Bangladesh has already taken the …
(This article has originally been published at Dhaka Tribune and can be accessed here) You can already hear the sounds of the goalposts shifting. As the 21st conference of parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) looms, some countries and groups are managing expectations. Levels of ambition, funding, and the temperature target are all being …
(This article has been originally published on The Daily Star and can be accessed here) Over the last two decades the topic of climate change has gone through an evolution in thinking both at the global level as well as in Bangladesh. Global narrative would broadly categorise the global climate change narrative as having gone through two phases already and being …
(This article has been originally published on The Daily Star, available here) The 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended in Lima, Peru almost 36 hours after the official closing with the adoption of the ” Lima Call for Climate Action”. This sets up the final round of detailed negotiations leading …
(This article was originally published on Dhaka Tribune, available here) Going into the Lima talks, there was a great sense of optimism buoyed by the successful climate change summit held by the UN secretary general in September and with the many hundreds of thousands of marchers in New York and many other cities around the world. This was followed closely with the historic agreement by …
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD is currently in Lima attending COP20 running from 1-12 December 2014. He will be providing regular video logs from there, the links to which will be posted here. You can also find the videos on IIED’s YouTube site. He will also be providing his views on his Twitter. For more information, visit here. Day 1 …
In the past few months ICCCAD has participated in numerous international meetings and workshops regarding Loss and Damage. Most of these meetings were focused on enhancing knowledge on the subject of Loss and Damage both regionally and globally. The Asia Pacific Network (APN) organized a three-day workshop on “Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Loss and Damage” on 21-23 …
On June 12, 2013, ICCCAD in collaboration with Germanwatch held a workshop to disseminate research findings from the Loss and Damage in Bangladesh project. Titled ‘Loss and Damage in Bangladesh: A review of Challenges and Opportunities from Climbing a learning Curve to Understand Loss and Damage at the National level’, the workshop took place at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn (Germany) during …
