(This article was originally published on Dhaka Tribune, available here) Going into the Lima talks, there was a great sense of optimism buoyed by the successful climate change summit held by the UN secretary general in September and with the many hundreds of thousands of marchers in New York and many other cities around the world. This was…
(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here) Least developed countries deserve more support in the face of evident and increasing threats, says expert In Lima we celebrated the crossing of the 10 Billion US Dollars mark in terms of pledges to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and we even saw a contribution of 50…
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCCAD is currently in Lima attending COP20 running from 1-12 December 2014. He will be providing regular video logs from there, the links to which will be posted here. You can also find the videos on IIED’s YouTube site. He will also be providing his views on his Twitter. For more information,…
(This article was originially published on The Daily Star here) In my previous column I had argued that while adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change should be the priority of Bangladesh when it comes to shorter term action domestically, mitigation mattered much more in the longer term at the global level as a 4…