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POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Saleemul Huq

POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr Saleemul Huq (1952-2023) was director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and professor at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

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The Climate Action Summit in New York has failed to deliver

4 October 2023, 13:00 PM
The world leaders who are responsible for emitting most of the greenhouse gases are not willing to take the requisite actions at the scale and pace that is required.
4 October 2023, 13:00 PM
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We are not on track for 2030 climate targets

20 September 2023, 02:00 AM
We are at the halfway point of this time frame; if we review the current situation, the progress is not good.
20 September 2023, 02:00 AM
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Macron’s support for an ‘adaptation pact’ with Bangladesh

13 September 2023, 00:00 AM
Macron first told us that he had had a one-on-one conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina already in which he’d offered assistance from France to Bangladesh to work on an energy transition partnership.
13 September 2023, 00:00 AM
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What Asia can do to fight climate change 

30 August 2023, 06:00 AM
As far as climate change is concerned, the Asia Pacific is highly significant.
30 August 2023, 06:00 AM
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Scale up climate change adaptation as soon as possible

23 August 2023, 00:00 AM
While Bangladesh has been doing quite well in adapting to climate change, there is still a long way to go with not much time to waste. Serious actions need to be taken urgently to boost the country’s resilience.
23 August 2023, 00:00 AM
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In funding climate actions, we can be more creative

16 August 2023, 01:00 AM
Leaders who attend COP28 will have to rise to the occasion with the sense of urgency that the climate change crisis requires today.
16 August 2023, 01:00 AM
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What our new climate envoy can do for Bangladesh

9 August 2023, 02:00 AM
Last month the PM Sheikh Hasina appointed Saber Hossain Chowdhury, member of parliament, as her climate envoy.
9 August 2023, 02:00 AM
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Enter ‘global boiling’

2 August 2023, 03:00 AM
“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
2 August 2023, 03:00 AM
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The inside story of the Paris Agreement

On the night of December 12, in the French city of Paris, almost exactly a month after the horrific terrorist attacks there, the leaders of
14 December 2015, 18:00 PM

The Climate Vulnerable Forum Has Come of Age

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) just held its high officials' meeting in Manila under the chairmanship of the government of the Philippines...
17 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE - WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

However, what is still to be agreed upon is how the $50 billion for adaptation is to be delivered with the GCF being unable to deliver any money yet, and in an even more troubling move, are offering loans instead of grants to vulnerable developing countries for adaptation projects.
27 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Innovation in climate finance

The recent Champion of the Earth award conferred upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the United Nations Environment Programme
30 September 2015, 18:00 PM
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The next phase in the global battle

The recent award of Champion of the Earth conferred upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the United Nations Environment Programme
20 September 2015, 18:00 PM

Financing adaptation in the most vulnerable developing countries

As governments prepare to go to Paris in December to finalise the new Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its 21st Conference of Parties (COP21)...
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Agenda for adaptation solutions

The Government of France is going to host the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris from November 30 to December 11, where it is expected that a new climate change agreement will be signed.
21 July 2015, 18:00 PM

BANGLADESH'S CLIMATE DIPLOMACY

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...
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM

SILOS OR PUZZLE?

Over the last decade, Bangladesh has spent over half-a-billion US dollars on hundreds of projects to tackle climate change.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Tracking climate finance

AT the global level, developed countries have pledged to provide $100 Billion every year starting from 2020 to developing countries to tackle
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM
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Climate change: Changing narratives

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.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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