Haseeb Md. Irfanullah

Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.

Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.

Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.

Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.

To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.

The core purpose of academic research and publications can’t be appointing and promoting university teachers, or getting into university rankings.

Over the last five years, one approach took shape quite strongly in relation to climate change and biodiversity conservation, and that is Nature-based Solutions.

While our country does have long co-management experience regarding land and inland waters, it doesn't have it for the sea.

The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”

A list of major environmental policy initiatives in Bangladesh that have been stuck in a limbo for many years

Are we hiding society’s structural failures by using the young as a shield?

While thinking of a sea-based economy, we must think of “Blue Justice” and “Blue Equity” to ensure people's rights over coasts, seas, and the resources therein.

The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.

How to integrate the health sector more prominently in our national adaptation actions?

Bangladesh’s youth ministry or its Department of Youth Development (DYD) isn’t one of the 25 ministries and divisions receiving climate-relevant allocations.

Environment and ecosystem rehabilitation has always been a cross-cutting issue in the JRPs. It is indeed exciting for environmentalists to see NbS finding its place in the world's largest refugee camp sheltering about a million of Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

Since the government is now preparing its annual national budget for FY2023-24, what changes can we expect to see in the climate-relevant allocations, post-NAP2050?

In the last two months of 2022, two large global events took place on two continents flanking the Atlantic Ocean. In November, around 35,000 people met at the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).

Capacity development is an important part of mainstreaming NbS and LLA.

On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.