Saleemul Huq

In the coming years, we have to deal with a new major global emergency called human-induced climate change, which will cause severe stress to our development investments.

The ongoing devastating floods in Pakistan, which follow a deadly heat wave from just a few weeks back, is not just another flood event.

Dr Saleemul Huq elaborates.

In this era of loss and damage caused by human-induced climate change, Bangladesh needs to invest in different aspects of the issue at the global level for significant enhancement of its climate diplomacy skills.

Recently, Vanuatu prepared a resolution for the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US.

COP27 will be the first COP in the new era of climate change.

Let me give a glimpse into the ups and downs in the US’ involvement in sometimes being a leader and sometimes a laggard when it comes to climate solutions, and where it stands today.

Most recently, the UN passed a resolution making it a human right for everyone on Planet Earth to have a healthy environment. The environmental advocates had been lobbying for this for many years and finally succeeded.

We need to be taking the issue of human displacement due to climate change seriously.

The world is already feeling the impacts of human-induced climate change.

This past week, the entire country has been rightly celebrating the successful completion and inauguration of the historic Padma Bridge.

Stockholm+50, a two-day international conference held last week, was aimed at reconnecting the different strands of the original environmental movement.

The issue of finance for helping the victims of human-induced climate change has now become the most urgent climate issue.

A decade ago, developed countries pledged to provide developing countries with USD 100 billion each year, from 2020 onwards.

During the negotiations that led to the historic Paris Agreement at the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in 2015, the climate

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations (UN) body set up to commission major assessments of the state of science on climate change and issue their assessment report every five or so years.

There are two major outcomes and messages on adaptation to climate change that have been mentioned in the recently published Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group II (WG2) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) was launched over 10 years ago, by then President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and has been operating since then with a different head of government in charge of it for a two-year tenure.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global body under the United Nations (UN), has been conducting periodic reviews (every six or seven years) of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change for the last 30 years.

In the last few weeks, three separate cyclones hit the island of Madagascar and then Mozambique, causing loss of life and damage to infrastructure.