I recently attended the Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University in Brighton, UK. The workshop brought together members of the Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group. This group is organised via a Coordination Hub hosted by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and a CKB Steering…
The Seminar was opened by special guest Mr. Benajir Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at NSU. He spoke briefly about his background working for the UN and a Japanese project he was part of in 1981. The project focussed on environmental issues in Bangladesh and distributed saplings country wide to enhance greenery and protect the…
Gobeshona is a new initiative being instigated by ICCCAD. It is being established in acknowledgement that much research about climate change in Bangladesh has and is being conducted both nationally and internationally. Resulting publications, however, remain widely dispersed and often unused and little acknowledged. As such, Gobeshona seeks to bring together the wide reaching research…