No space for Climate change in the ongoing reform debates but actions are needed.
For ecological monitoring of wildlife, Bangladesh government needs to fund and implement projects as per the new framework.
Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.
Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.
Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.
Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.
To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.
The core purpose of academic research and publications can’t be appointing and promoting university teachers, or getting into university rankings.
Over the last four years, the Rohingya refugee crisis has changed the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Peninsula on many levels.
Before answering the question in the title, let’s look into Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Blue Economy.
If we track the history of floating agriculture in Bangladesh, we may find six major phases. It is difficult to pinpoint when floating cultivation began in Bangladesh—the current reckoning goes up to 400 years ago.
Over the last 50 years, Bangladesh’s journey towards community development has essentially been a result of government, donors, and NGOs coming together to work for the vulnerable people.
In the second half of 2017, the government did something unprecedented in response to an unprecedented situation—it sheltered about 750,000 Rohingyas fleeing from a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the Myanmar army.
The United Nations declared 2021-2030 as the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. Such declarations bring us both good news and bad. First,
Being born and brought up in Lalbag of Old Dhaka, I often find myself in the middle of a large, rapidly changing archaeological site by the Buriganga River.
When we talk about nature-based solutions (NbS)—that is protecting, managing, restoring or creating ecosystems for the benefit of the people and biodiversity—we almost always think of wilderness or rural areas.
Farmers of the south-central districts of Bangladesh, namely Barishal, Gopalganj, Madaripur, and Pirojpur, have been practicing floating agriculture for decades, if not centuries.
The third batch of Rohingya refugees entered Bhashan Char on January 29 and January 30, 2021. Out of Cox’s Bazar’s 867,000 refugees, about 6,700 have now been voluntarily relocated since December 2020 to this island on the Bay of Bengal.
