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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November 16, 2022
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
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
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.

April 29, 2022
April 29, 2022

Let’s not pay lip service to climate change

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.

February 19, 2022
February 19, 2022

Nature-based solutions to our societal challenges

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?

February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022

Let nature inspire our development drive

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.

December 17, 2021
December 17, 2021

How crucial is nature for our prosperity?

The Government of Bangladesh has recently drafted the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan Decade 2030.

December 4, 2021
December 4, 2021

Mainstreaming nature-based solutions into development in Bangladesh

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.

September 6, 2021
September 6, 2021

Using our climate funds right

When I talk about Bangladesh’s climate change response, I get excited by the thought of three milestones.

August 26, 2021
August 26, 2021

Five changes we need in the fifth year of the Rohingya crisis

Over the last four years, the Rohingya refugee crisis has changed the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Peninsula on many levels.