Saleemul Huq
POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Dr Saleemul Huq is director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and professor at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). Email: saleemul.huq@iied.org
We are not on track for 2030 climate targets
We are at the halfway point of this time frame; if we review the current situation, the progress is not good.
2d ago
Macron’s support for an ‘adaptation pact’ with Bangladesh
Macron first told us that he had had a one-on-one conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina already in which he’d offered assistance from France to Bangladesh to work on an energy transition partnership.
1w ago
What Asia can do to fight climate change
As far as climate change is concerned, the Asia Pacific is highly significant.
3w ago
Scale up climate change adaptation as soon as possible
While Bangladesh has been doing quite well in adapting to climate change, there is still a long way to go with not much time to waste. Serious actions need to be taken urgently to boost the country’s resilience.
In funding climate actions, we can be more creative
Leaders who attend COP28 will have to rise to the occasion with the sense of urgency that the climate change crisis requires today.
What our new climate envoy can do for Bangladesh
Last month the PM Sheikh Hasina appointed Saber Hossain Chowdhury, member of parliament, as her climate envoy.
Enter ‘global boiling’
“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
We need a loss and damage report from the IPCC
A special report on loss and damage will capture the significant amount of scientific research being carried out now on different aspects of tackling climate change.
June 27, 2023
Key takeaways from the Paris summit on climate finance
An admirable attempt by the French president to raise the important issue of reforming the global financial system in light of climate change emergency.
June 14, 2023
Advancing the Glasgow Dialogue on funding to address Loss and Damage
One of the outcomes of the COP26 held in United Kingdom’s Glasgow in November, 2021 was a decision to hold a series of three annual Glasgow Dialogues on funding to address Loss and Damage, with each dialogue to be held in Bonn at the annual pre-COP event.
June 7, 2023
Understanding the game of COP
During the annual COP, all the world’s media turn up to follow the negotiations on different topics, and many civil society actors, especially the youth, make great efforts to attend.
May 23, 2023
Understanding the concepts of adaptation and loss and damage
What we called mitigation before is now better described as averting or avoiding loss and damage
May 16, 2023
Role of MPs in tackling climate change
A set of parliamentarians from the most vulnerable constituencies could form a special group to get more deeply involved regarding the climate actions needed at the local level in their constituencies.
May 10, 2023
Bangladesh doesn’t need new pilot projects to tackle climate change
Bangladesh has all the data needed to take the programmatic approach to tackle climate change.
May 4, 2023
Making a university great, with climate action
Bangladesh is at the forefront of having to tackle climate change out of necessity, so we cannot avoid learning how to do so.
April 25, 2023
Time to make climate funds part of mainstream finance
How are we going to deal with all the evolving climate issues, and what kind of finance is needed for that?
April 18, 2023
More heatwaves are coming our way. Are we prepared?
We need to rapidly find ways to deal with heat stress.
April 5, 2023
Closer to making polluters pay
This is just one step, although a very important one, towards getting justice for the victims of climate change.
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