Bangladesh and Climate change
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- The Adaptation Learning Mechanism
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- Search country-specific adaptation profiles from the Adaptation Learning Mechanism
- South Asian women speak out on climate change adaptation
- T. Mitchell; T. Tanner; K. Lussier / ActionAid International, 2007
- Women will suffer most from climate change, because they are poorer. They have less access to financial resources, land, education, health and other basic rights than men, and are seldom involved in decision making processes. Women ar...
- Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?
- D. M. Smith / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult. Poor people with few assets ca...
- Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability
- South South North, 2006
- The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are: ...
- A Summary of the Second International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
- M. Gutiérrez; L. Mead / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007
- The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007. The workshop aimed to share the latest developments in community-based adaptation programmes, priorities and solutions ...
- Provides practical tools for achieving poverty reduction through mitigation and adaptation to climate change
- South South North, 2006
- The South South North network adopts a pragmatic approach to tackling climate change and sustainable development. This module incorporates the main approaches and provides a toolkit for practitioners wishing to implement mitigation an...
- Breaking down the complexity of vulnerability into manageable components with communities to reduce their exposure to hazards and shocks
- E. Chiwaka; R. Yates / ActionAid International, 2004
- This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disast...
- Can decentralised renewable energy tackle both climate change adaptation and mitigation?
- H. Venema; M. Clsse / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
- This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change. Decentralised renewable energy projects (DREs) address core sustainable development priorities ...
- Clean, renewable energy for all African households?
- Christian Aid, 2006
- Tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change, is the main finding of this NGO report. Calling on the United Kingdom Government in particular to lead rich countries in ta...
- Curbing the negative consequences of climate change
- D. Efroymson / WBB Trust – Work for a better Bangladesh, 2005
- This paper attempts to provide an understanding of the basic process of climate change, the way people are contributing to it and what they can do to reverse the process. The paper starts by giving a brief history about carbon ...
- Assessing climate change impacts on poor fishing communities
- E.H. Allison / Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004
- Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
- Climate Action Network, South Asia (CANSA)
- Climate change research and dissemination organisation based in Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) is an independent, non-profit making, non-government research organisation working on Resource Management, Environment and Development (RMED) issues. It was established in 1986 and over the years has grown to become a leading research and policy institute in the non-government sectors. BCAS works on REMD related issues in both the national and internat...
