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COP21 daily updates with Saleemul Huq, December 2015

  Saleemul Huq, senior fellow of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), is providing daily reports from the UNFCCC climate talks in Paris, France from 30 November to 11 December 2015. The vlogs include updates from the 13th Development and Climate…

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The 2nd Annual Gobeshona Conference 2016

Date: 8th – 11th January, 2016 Venue: Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Plot 16 Block B, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, Bangladesh   About the conference: The Gobeshona Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh is an annual conference that showcases research on climate change in Bangladesh. The conference provides the opportunity for international and multi-stakeholder participants…

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COP21: Why the Paris talks must tackle climate-forced migration

With the crisis of refugees arriving in to Europe from Syria and other countries in Asia and Africa the topic of climate change, displacement and migration assumes a high level of attention. Much of the debate is characterised by prejudice rather than evidence. We should accept the obvious truism that humans have been moving for…

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The Climate Vulnerable Forum Has Come of Age

(Originally published on The Daily Star here) The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) just held its high officials’ meeting in Manila under the chairmanship of the government of the Philippines where they prepared the Manila Paris Declaration to be formally adopted at a heads of government meeting of the CVF countries in Paris on November 30.…