Saleemul Huq

Bangladesh has just hosted a big international conference on migration as the co-chair, with Germany, of the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Bangladesh has all the ingredients in place to pull off this transition from externally focused to genuinely nationally driven goals to both tackle climate change as well as deliver sustainable development by 2030.

The CVF, which started as a small group of vulnerable developing countries in 2009 under the leadership of the Maldives, has now come of age and has grown to 48 countries, becoming a global leader in tackling climate change and implementing the Paris Agreement. c

The 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Marrakech...

This was a historic occasion as the Paris Agreement, which was negotiated and agreed upon last year at COP21 in Paris, was then ratified by over a hundred countries in record speed and came into force on November 4, with the first meeting of the Parties held in Marrakech on November 15.

The morning of last Monday in Marrakech, Laurent Fabius, the Environment Minister of France, who was president of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) since last December, handed over the presidency to Hakima El Haite, the Environment Minister of Morocco. She has now taken over as President of COP22 here in Marrakech.

The members of Parliament from Bangladesh were well represented in Geneva at the IPU meeting and were quite vocal in raising their voices at the global level. They now have to be equally active at the national level through their actions in Parliament.

I am writing this from Colombo, Sri Lanka where I have been attending the Fifth Asia Pacific Adaptation forum here with over 800 participants from over fifty countries in Asia and the Pacific...

The tougher temperature goal was a great victory for the vulnerable countries in terms of global diplomacy and advocacy. Now

Bangladesh has previously chaired both the LDC Group as well as the CVF and remains a senior member of both groups. It will thus have an important role to play at COP22 in Marrakech in November.

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at its 7th Conference of Parties (COP7) held in Marrakech, Morocco in 2001, adaptation to climate change was recognised for the first time through the mandate to support the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in carrying out National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA).

BANGLA-DESH currently belongs to the official United Nations recognised group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), along

After the Paris Agreement on climate change endorsed by every participating country last December at the 21st Conference of

In the last week of April, nearly two hundred international participants from over forty countries, along with a hundred participants

Over the last decade in Bangladesh, we have spent almost a billion US dollars on several hundred projects and activities to tackle climate change.

Unfortunately, so far, our performance on both transparency as well as accountability has not been very good. Fortunately, there is still time to improve this before the major climate change funds begin to flow.

THE 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), which was successfully concluded in December 2015 with the adoption of the Paris

As the implications of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change of 2015 become clear, financing of actions to tackle climate change on both the global and national level in every country will play a key role. These will, in turn, be influenced largely by the global and national political economy. In this article, I will try to give some personal insight on the matter of the political economy in which future climate change finance is likely to play out. This will include the main institutions involved, main drivers of change and where things are going.

The year 2015 that has just ended has been a landmark year for both the development as well as climate change discourse at the global

The climate change research community in Bangladesh, which consists of several dozen organisations, including public and private universities...