The new climate budget of Bangladesh should have allocated funds under the Just Transition theme—not just for emission reduction, but also for ensuring workers’ rights during such transitions
No space for Climate change in the ongoing reform debates but actions are needed.
For ecological monitoring of wildlife, Bangladesh government needs to fund and implement projects as per the new framework.
Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.
Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.
Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.
Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.
To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.
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).
Capacity development is an important part of mainstreaming NbS and LLA.
On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.
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.
The 2022 JRP has five strategic objectives to support the affected Bangladeshi and Rohingya populations.
In the last couple of months, we have been listening to discussions on how to build on the outcomes of the COP26—the 26th Conference of the Parties for climate change held in Glasgow, UK last year.
As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the societal challenges we were fighting in the pre-Covid times all got worse over the past two years—be it extreme poverty, food and water crises, biodiversity loss, ecological degradation, or climatic change and associated disasters. But, can nature still be a part of tackling these challenges?
If we want to address our development and societal challenges with the help of nature, we have three options. While nature-based solutions (NbS) have been discussed in this column extensively, let’s talk about two other options: nature-driven solutions and nature-inspired solutions.
The Government of Bangladesh has recently drafted the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan Decade 2030.
On November 13, 2021, the two-week 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, ended in Scotland with the participating nations agreeing upon the Glasgow Climate Pact.
