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Lessons from the South

I have just returned from Kampala, Uganda, where I attended the 11th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA11), where around 300 participants from over fifty countries came together for a week of discussions and knowledge-sharing on how the most vulnerable communities around the world are already taking action to tackle climate change at the…

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Tackling climate change

Now that the challenge of tackling global climate change has been universally accepted by all countries and people (with the notable exception of Mr Trump and his cronies in the White House and Federal US government) through the Paris Agreement, it is important for all countries, companies, NGOs, universities and other relevant stakeholders to share…

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Trump will make the US face loss and damage claims

Since the announce-ment by President Trump that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, he has been facing a whirlwind of push backs and rejection by all the 195 countries who are parties to the Paris Agreement (only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign it), and it looks like the…

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Bangladesh needs to promote climate diplomacy

For a number of years, the Bangladesh Foreign Service Academy has been inviting me as a guest lecturer on climate diplomacy for their trainee officers. I am very pleased that as of this year they have made climate diplomacy into a two-day short course, with a number of eminent speakers from the government and academia…