Saleemul Huq

After the Paris Agreement on climate change endorsed by every participating country last December at the 21st Conference of

In the last week of April, nearly two hundred international participants from over forty countries, along with a hundred participants

Over the last decade in Bangladesh, we have spent almost a billion US dollars on several hundred projects and activities to tackle climate change.

Unfortunately, so far, our performance on both transparency as well as accountability has not been very good. Fortunately, there is still time to improve this before the major climate change funds begin to flow.

THE 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), which was successfully concluded in December 2015 with the adoption of the Paris

As the implications of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change of 2015 become clear, financing of actions to tackle climate change on both the global and national level in every country will play a key role. These will, in turn, be influenced largely by the global and national political economy. In this article, I will try to give some personal insight on the matter of the political economy in which future climate change finance is likely to play out. This will include the main institutions involved, main drivers of change and where things are going.

The year 2015 that has just ended has been a landmark year for both the development as well as climate change discourse at the global

The climate change research community in Bangladesh, which consists of several dozen organisations, including public and private universities...

On the night of December 12, in the French city of Paris, almost exactly a month after the horrific terrorist attacks there, the leaders of

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) just held its high officials' meeting in Manila under the chairmanship of the government of the Philippines...

However, what is still to be agreed upon is how the $50 billion for adaptation is to be delivered with the GCF being unable to deliver any money yet, and in an even more troubling move, are offering loans instead of grants to vulnerable developing countries for adaptation projects.

The recent Champion of the Earth award conferred upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the United Nations Environment Programme

The recent award of Champion of the Earth conferred upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the United Nations Environment Programme

As governments prepare to go to Paris in December to finalise the new Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its 21st Conference of Parties (COP21)...

The Government of France is going to host the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris from November 30 to December 11, where it is expected that a new climate change agreement will be signed.

As countries are preparing for the next set of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in France in December this year...

Over the last decade, Bangladesh has spent over half-a-billion US dollars on hundreds of projects to tackle climate change.

AT the global level, developed countries have pledged to provide $100 Billion every year starting from 2020 to developing countries to tackle

Over the last two decades the topic of climate change has gone through an evolution in thinking both at the global level as well as in Bangladesh.