Saleemul Huq

A special report on loss and damage will capture the significant amount of scientific research being carried out now on different aspects of tackling climate change.

Across the world, in the Pacific Ocean, we are seeing the beginning of a new El Nino year, which means that we have to expect significantly higher temperatures globally – not just for one year, but for several years to come.

London has the potential to become a global leader in harnessing the insurance sector to tackle climate change at scale.

An admirable attempt by the French president to raise the important issue of reforming the global financial system in light of climate change emergency.

One of the outcomes of the COP26 held in United Kingdom’s Glasgow in November, 2021 was a decision to hold a series of three annual Glasgow Dialogues on funding to address Loss and Damage, with each dialogue to be held in Bonn at the annual pre-COP event.

During the annual COP, all the world’s media turn up to follow the negotiations on different topics, and many civil society actors, especially the youth, make great efforts to attend.

What we called mitigation before is now better described as averting or avoiding loss and damage

A set of parliamentarians from the most vulnerable constituencies could form a special group to get more deeply involved regarding the climate actions needed at the local level in their constituencies.

Bangladesh has all the data needed to take the programmatic approach to tackle climate change.

Bangladesh is at the forefront of having to tackle climate change out of necessity, so we cannot avoid learning how to do so.

How are we going to deal with all the evolving climate issues, and what kind of finance is needed for that?

We need to rapidly find ways to deal with heat stress.

This is just one step, although a very important one, towards getting justice for the victims of climate change.

The seven-day conference was a platform for local leaders of LLA from over 30 countries.

Such strategic funding would not only benefit Bangladesh but also the UK, and indeed many other countries as well.

This new initiative aims to support both governments and civil societies in the vulnerable countries to enhance their knowledge of and responses to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change.

We can make the southwestern part of Bangladesh one of the world's foremost places to implement nature-based solutions (NbS).

As we enter this third era of loss and damage, for which no country is really prepared, the whole world will need to find better ways of cooperation within and across national boundaries.

Public financing from developed countries will never be sufficient.

As we enter the third year of this decade, we have only seven more years until 2030 to tackle the major global problems of climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).