Saleemul Huq

The world leaders who are responsible for emitting most of the greenhouse gases are not willing to take the requisite actions at the scale and pace that is required.

We are at the halfway point of this time frame; if we review the current situation, the progress is not good.

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.

As far as climate change is concerned, the Asia Pacific is highly significant.

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.

Leaders who attend COP28 will have to rise to the occasion with the sense of urgency that the climate change crisis requires today.

Last month the PM Sheikh Hasina appointed Saber Hossain Chowdhury, member of parliament, as her climate envoy.

“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

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.

Across the world, in the Pacific Ocean, we are seeing the beginning of a new El Nino year, which means that we have to expect significantly higher temperatures globally – not just for one year, but for several years to come.

London has the potential to become a global leader in harnessing the insurance sector to tackle climate change at scale.

An admirable attempt by the French president to raise the important issue of reforming the global financial system in light of climate change emergency.

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.

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.

What we called mitigation before is now better described as averting or avoiding loss and damage

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.

Bangladesh has all the data needed to take the programmatic approach to tackle climate change.

Bangladesh is at the forefront of having to tackle climate change out of necessity, so we cannot avoid learning how to do so.

How are we going to deal with all the evolving climate issues, and what kind of finance is needed for that?

We need to rapidly find ways to deal with heat stress.