Everyone working in climate change should be a communicator for the cause.Academics writing for journals know that purpose, audience and format are key features of effective communication. What about writing for a mass audience? Communicating your research to a mass audience inevitably creates more impact for your work, since your findings reach more people. Academic…
I have just returned from an exhilarating and exhausting week in New York, where I was one of 38 representatives from global civil society invited by Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to attend the UN Climate Summit. The week kicked off on 20 September, when I was invited to spend the afternoon with SouthBronxUnite – a community of…
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business and civil society to Climate Summit 2014 this 23 September in New York, in order to engage them in a conversation for advancing climate action and ambition across the world. The Summit intends to act as a platform for leaders and experts to…
I am conducting my research on children-focused disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs and how they enable children to reduce vulnerabilities to the climate-induced hazards like flood and cyclones. Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country due to climate change. According to a report on DRR for Bangladesh, climate experts predict that climate-induced hazards like floods and cyclones…