Loss and Damage

Time to agree on a definition of Loss and Damage from Climate Change

International action on loss and damage from climate change is lagging behind the rising frequency and escalating intensity of real impacts. As the Executive Committee members of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) begin to implement the Lima Work Programme on Loss and Damage agreed upon at COP20, an operational definition of loss and damage will enable and guide…

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Bangladesh’s Climate Diplomacy

(Originally published here) As countries are preparing for the next set of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in France in December this year, there are many other meetings between countries taking place to identify areas of collaboration, either bilaterally or in smaller groups or in coalitions-of-the-willing. The Government of…

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Degrees of Salvation

(This article has originally been published at Dhaka Tribune and can be accessed here) You can already hear the sounds of the goalposts shifting. As the 21st conference of parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) looms, some countries and groups are managing expectations. Levels of ambition, funding, and the…

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Climate change: Changing narratives

(This article has been originally published on The Daily Star and can be accessed here) Over the last two decades the topic of climate change has gone through an evolution in thinking both at the global level as well as in Bangladesh. Global narrative would broadly categorise the global climate change narrative as having gone through…