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.
The core purpose of academic research and publications can’t be appointing and promoting university teachers, or getting into university rankings.
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.
While our country does have long co-management experience regarding land and inland waters, it doesn't have it for the sea.
The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”
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.
When I talk about Bangladesh’s climate change response, I get excited by the thought of three milestones.
Over the last four years, the Rohingya refugee crisis has changed the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Peninsula on many levels.
Before answering the question in the title, let’s look into Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Blue Economy.
If we track the history of floating agriculture in Bangladesh, we may find six major phases. It is difficult to pinpoint when floating cultivation began in Bangladesh—the current reckoning goes up to 400 years ago.