In Merak, Bhutan, we meet Ms. Pema Wangmo, who, with the help of her community, worked to restore greenhouses destroyed by climate change-induced snow fall. This is the fifth of the “Voices from the Frontline (Phase III)” stories by GRP and ICCCAD supported by Irish Aid. Ms. Wangmo comes from the Brokpa community, an indigenous group residing in the Merak …
Flood-affected people get off a boat after crossing a stream in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, July 18, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain The litmus test of success for the U.N. climate summit will be the creation of an urgently needed fund to help the most vulnerable people Open letter to the incoming president of the COP28 U.N. climate summit Dear Dr Sultan Al …
June 11, 2023 All day This course is a collaboration between Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), aimed at empowering individuals to drive positive change in their communities. 💪🌎 Course Topics:🌱 Evolution of LLA🌱 LLA from Principle to Practice🌱 Financing LLA🌱 MEL for LLA🌱 Relationship between L&D and LLA, and more! Course Fee: …
The Kunburudhoo Island community in the Maldives plants trees to combat the effects of climate induced loss and damage like beach erosion and salinization. This is the first of the “Voices from the Frontline (Phase III)” stories by GRP and ICCCAD supported by Irish Aid. Small island communities are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with rising sea …
A major prediction has come out of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, which says the world will almost certainly cross the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global atmospheric temperature rise within the next five years or so. This confirms that the world has already entered the era of losses and damages attributable to human-induced climate change and …
May 24, 2023 @ 3:20 pm – 5:00 pm UTC+7 ICCCAD and IFSD are hosting a session on ‘Decolonising climate resilience – What can we learn from Adaptation to Loss and Damage?’ , 24th May at 15.20 (UTC+7) at Riverside 5. This session examines how colonial mindsets imperil climate action around adaptation and loss and damage. We’ll draw on positive examples …
Cop27 resulted in the historic decision of setting up a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries, but success depends on a few key actions. A man walks as Cyclone Freddy makes landfall over Vilankulos, Mozambique, February 24, 2023. (Photo: UNICEF Mozambique/223/Alfredo Zuniga/via Reuters) Last November, at Cop27 in Egypt, a pivotal decision was unanimously agreed by all countries …
The Transitional Committee (TC) created at COP27 has acomplex task to reach solutions on loss and damage financingthis year. There is strong opportunity for progress: from settingup a new dedicated fund to designing wider fundingarrangements to address loss and damage and identifying newsources of finance. The list is long and time is short: so how canthe TC work efficiently, contribute …
People get on a boat as they look for shelter during a widespread flood in the northeastern part of the country, in Sylhet, Bangladesh, June 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kazi Salahuddin Razu What’s the context? A group of poor countries and island states will work out how to find and use finance to help communities deal with climate harm Countries to set …
March 30, 2023 All day British Academy Conferences 2023-24 Measuring Heritage Loss and Damage from Climate Change for Effective Policy Reporting This one-day conference will explore how to measure the human cost of loss and damage to coastal heritage from climate change related sea-level rise and coastal erosion, and to align humanities-social science heritage scholarship with science-based climate change scholarship. There is …
