Haseeb Md Irfanullah

Biodiversity conservation requires more than just frameworks

For ecological monitoring of wildlife, Bangladesh government needs to fund and implement projects as per the new framework.

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To reform Bangladesh's environment sector, focus on biodiversity conservation

Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.

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Why should Bangladesh have Sundarbans biosphere reserve?

Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.

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Bangladesh’s way forward to biodiversity conservation

Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.

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In tackling climate change, we must aim for just resilience

Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.

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Before COP29, let’s get our priorities in line

To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.

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Is our research supporting our policymaking?

The core purpose of academic research and publications can’t be appointing and promoting university teachers, or getting into university rankings.

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Integrating our conservation and adaptation approaches

Over the last five years, one approach took shape quite strongly in relation to climate change and biodiversity conservation, and that is Nature-based Solutions.

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January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024

Overcoming our environmental policy inertia

A list of major environmental policy initiatives in Bangladesh that have been stuck in a limbo for many years

December 22, 2023
December 22, 2023

Are we stealing youth from the young?

Are we hiding society’s structural failures by using the young as a shield?

December 13, 2023
December 13, 2023

Strengthening our blue economy

While thinking of a sea-based economy, we must think of “Blue Justice” and “Blue Equity” to ensure people's rights over coasts, seas, and the resources therein.

November 23, 2023
November 23, 2023

Bangladesh should advocate nature conservation at COP28

The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.

August 13, 2023
August 13, 2023

Health needs more focus in our climate actions

How to integrate the health sector more prominently in our national adaptation actions?

July 19, 2023
July 19, 2023

Our climate budget needs some adjustments

Bangladesh’s youth ministry or its Department of Youth Development (DYD) isn’t one of the 25 ministries and divisions receiving climate-relevant allocations.

May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023

Combatting the Rohingya refugee crisis with nature-based solutions

Environment and ecosystem rehabilitation has always been a cross-cutting issue in the JRPs. It is indeed exciting for environmentalists to see NbS finding its place in the world's largest refugee camp sheltering about a million of Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

April 20, 2023
April 20, 2023

How will our climate budget look post-NAP2050?

Since the government is now preparing its annual national budget for FY2023-24, what changes can we expect to see in the climate-relevant allocations, post-NAP2050?

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

Nature-based solutions can fight two key battles together

In the last two months of 2022, two large global events took place on two continents flanking the Atlantic Ocean. In November, around 35,000 people met at the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).

December 28, 2022
December 28, 2022

What awaits Bangladesh’s climate change adaptation in 2023?

Capacity development is an important part of mainstreaming NbS and LLA.