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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Creating a community for conservation
While our country does have long co-management experience regarding land and inland waters, it doesn't have it for the sea.
4m ago
Forest Department’s leadership crucial for conservation
The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”
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Overcoming our environmental policy inertia
A list of major environmental policy initiatives in Bangladesh that have been stuck in a limbo for many years
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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
Health needs more focus in our climate actions
How to integrate the health sector more prominently in our national adaptation actions?
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
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
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
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
What awaits Bangladesh’s climate change adaptation in 2023?
Capacity development is an important part of mainstreaming NbS and LLA.
November 16, 2022
How does our new National Adaptation Plan consider nature?
On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.
July 4, 2022
Tackling climate change: NbS can enhance Locally-Led Adaptation
Two concepts related to climate change – Locally-Led Adaptation (LLA) and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) – have gained significant momentum over the last couple of years.
June 20, 2022
Have we already started seeing the Rohingya refugee crisis differently?
The 2022 JRP has five strategic objectives to support the affected Bangladeshi and Rohingya populations.
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