Haseeb Md Irfanullah

Integrating our conservation and adaptation approaches

Over the last five years, one approach took shape quite strongly in relation to climate change and biodiversity conservation, and that is Nature-based Solutions.

2d ago

Creating a community for conservation

While our country does have long co-management experience regarding land and inland waters, it doesn't have it for the sea.

1w ago

Forest Department’s leadership crucial for conservation

The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”

Overcoming our environmental policy inertia

A list of major environmental policy initiatives in Bangladesh that have been stuck in a limbo for many years

Are we stealing youth from the young?

Are we hiding society’s structural failures by using the young as a shield?

Strengthening our blue economy

While thinking of a sea-based economy, we must think of “Blue Justice” and “Blue Equity” to ensure people's rights over coasts, seas, and the resources therein.

Bangladesh should advocate nature conservation at COP28

The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.

Health needs more focus in our climate actions

How to integrate the health sector more prominently in our national adaptation actions?

April 20, 2023
April 20, 2023

How will our climate budget look post-NAP2050?

Since the government is now preparing its annual national budget for FY2023-24, what changes can we expect to see in the climate-relevant allocations, post-NAP2050?

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

Nature-based solutions can fight two key battles together

In the last two months of 2022, two large global events took place on two continents flanking the Atlantic Ocean. In November, around 35,000 people met at the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).

December 28, 2022
December 28, 2022

What awaits Bangladesh’s climate change adaptation in 2023?

Capacity development is an important part of mainstreaming NbS and LLA.

November 16, 2022
November 16, 2022

How does our new National Adaptation Plan consider nature?

On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.

July 4, 2022
July 4, 2022

Tackling climate change: NbS can enhance Locally-Led Adaptation

Two concepts related to climate change – Locally-Led Adaptation (LLA) and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) – have gained significant momentum over the last couple of years.

June 20, 2022
June 20, 2022

Have we already started seeing the Rohingya refugee crisis differently?

The 2022 JRP has five strategic objectives to support the affected Bangladeshi and Rohingya populations.

April 29, 2022
April 29, 2022

Let’s not pay lip service to climate change

In the last couple of months, we have been listening to discussions on how to build on the outcomes of the COP26—the 26th Conference of the Parties for climate change held in Glasgow, UK last year.

February 19, 2022
February 19, 2022

Nature-based solutions to our societal challenges

As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the societal challenges we were fighting in the pre-Covid times all got worse over the past two years—be it extreme poverty, food and water crises, biodiversity loss, ecological degradation, or climatic change and associated disasters. But, can nature still be a part of tackling these challenges?

February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022

Let nature inspire our development drive

If we want to address our development and societal challenges with the help of nature, we have three options. While nature-based solutions (NbS) have been discussed in this column extensively, let’s talk about two other options: nature-driven solutions and nature-inspired solutions.

December 17, 2021
December 17, 2021

How crucial is nature for our prosperity?

The Government of Bangladesh has recently drafted the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan Decade 2030.

push notification
X