
Saleemul Huq
POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The writer is Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh. Email: [email protected]
POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The writer is Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh. Email: [email protected]
The developing countries are united in their demand for the establishment of the Sharm El Sheikh Finance Facility for Loss and Damage (SSFFLD) at the end of the climate conference later this week.
There is a great need for an annual “Accountability COP” to hold those who have pledged to act against climate change to account.
These actors are addressing losses and damages from human-induced climate change now.
Bangladesh must invest wisely in training our young girls and boys to become the knowledge workers of the future.
The World Bank recently published a thorough analysis of various adverse impacts of human-induced climate change that are going to hit the coastal districts of Bangladesh.
It is clear that polluters are the reason why the world is going through the era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change.
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.