AT the end of the first week of the Nineteenth Conference of Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in Warsaw, Poland, some of the issues have been agreed but some still remain…
THE nineteenth conference of parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will run for the next two weeks in Warsaw, Poland. The main outcome expected from this meeting is to put in place a road…
A recent survey on people’s perception of climate change carried out by the BBC of over thirty thousand respondents from six countries in Asia, including Bangladesh, India and China, found that the people of Bangladesh had the highest level of…
AS countries, cities, communities, institutions, private sector, and even households and individuals in both developing as well as developed countries start to consider the impacts of potential human induced climate change and how they can adapt to deal with any…
AS countries start to think about the inevitable loss and damage from climate change in the future, one of the tools at their disposal is insurance to pay for the loss and damage that will occur in future from climatic…
IN recent months, the world has seen some significant loss and damage from climate related events. These have included losses of nearly $100 billion in the United States of America from Hurricane Sandy in the northwest coast and droughts in…
I have just spent several weeks in various parts of the United States of America meeting with scientists, journalists, senior government officials and ordinary citizens. I have also been following the daily electronic, print and social media about news coverage…
THE issue of “Loss and Damage from Climate Change” is a relatively new, but rapidly emerging, topic of debate and discussions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was first raised some years ago by Solomon…
It seems that everyone who understands the threat climate change poses is lining up to congratulate President Obama on the plan he unveiled this week. I fully appreciate the significantly different tone Obama has adopted, as well as the number…
THE thirty-eighth meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB38) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended in Bonn, Germany on June 14 with very little progress in preparation for the nineteenth Conference of Parties (COP19) to be…
The passing of Cyclone Mohasen through the Bay of Bengal and hitting the coastal areas of Bangladesh once again brings to our notice the devastation that such cyclones can bring. Fortunately due to the timely actions of all concerned, as…
THE 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA7) concluded in Dhaka on April 25 with a keynote speech by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, on the need to focus on “Climate Justice.” She now chairs the Mary Robinson…
During April, Bangladesh will be taking centre stage on a number of aspects in tackling global climate change: the first of such events took place as Bangladesh hosted the Cartagena Dialogue held in Dhaka on April 8 and 9, and…
THE 3rd Asia Pacific Adaptation Forum was held in Incheon, Korea from March 18 to 20 with over 700 participants from across the region, including government officials, NGOs, researchers and regional and international organisations. It was hosted by the Ministry…
The failure to meet expectations for a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol at the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009 has dimmed…
