Saleemul Huq

I want to focus on a little known Article of the Paris Agreement, which may well come to haunt the US and will be an unintended consequence of the US withdrawing from it.

On that note, today, I will try to make the case why every new diplomat from Bangladesh needs to be climate literate, if not a climate expert.

At the turn of the century, under the United Nations, all countries agreed to try to achieve a set of ten Millennium Development Goals

The only consequence for the rest of the world if the US stays in it is a very negative one of having to fight them on every little issue in the negotiations, as they will inevitably try to hold back all our actions.

The haor basin in the northeastern part of Bangladesh is currently experiencing severe flash floods, causing considerable hardship to people, and destroying crops and other infrastructure.

Apart of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, agreed in 2015, was the pledge by developed countries to provide a...

Rather than trying to monopolise all actions related to climate change, the MOEF can provide technical assistance, advice, and research support to the other sectors as well as to the national plans under development.

The subject of adaptation to climate change has gone through two major phases already and is now on its third phase.

In the historic Paris Agreement reached in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework...

Over the last decade, developed countries have contributed tens of billions of US dollars in climate finance to developing countries to

The Paris Agreement (PA) on climate change which was achieved at the 21st conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in December 2015 was historic in several ways.

For the overall economic development of the country, the key roles will have to start with finance and banking sectors which can leverage both national and international capital to invest in the other industries and commercial sectors at a much larger scale.

On the last day of the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Although President Trump has only been in office for less than a month, it is already becoming clear how he intends to carry out implementing his campaign pledges and who he is appointing in his cabinet.

One of the important aspects of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change achieved at the 21st conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015 was the inclusion of a global goal for adaptation.

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed countries have agreed to provide developing countries with USD 100 billion per year, starting from 2020 onwards, to help tackle climate change through both mitigation and adaptation.

The issue of loss and damage from climate change has been a very politically contentious issue in the international negotiations under

Thus when it comes to the issue of how to deal with the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change Bangladesh is already well out of being an LDC and on the way to being a global leader on adaptation to climate change.

As the year 2016 comes to an end and we step into 2017, we stand on a major fork in the road with respect to tackling climate

In the last few weeks, Dhaka has hosted a number of international workshops and meetings on issues to do with migration and also on urbanisation.