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
- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- A. Arnall; K. Oswald; M. Davies; T. Mitchell; C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk r...
- Identifying measures for integrating adaptation policies in development activities to address climate vulnerability in Bangladesh
- M. Alam / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
- Bangladesh is characterised by over-exploitation of natural resources due to poverty with rapid population growth, improper land use, absence of a land use policy, and ineffective implementation of existing laws and guidelines. This p...
- Can developed countries adapt low carbon policies?
- K. Ellis; B. Baker; A. Lemma / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- The paper presents a review of low carbon growth policies in two high-income (UK and Germany), five middle-income (China, India, Mexico, Guyana and Nigeria) and two low-income countries (Bangladesh and Ethiopia). The challenge of poli...
- A holistic approach towards climate change adaptation policy in South Asia
- Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
- The report presents South Asia-wide review of climate change adaptation research, intended to identify present knowledge, gaps on adaptation and application including the practice of research. The study explores how groups in the vuln...
- Findings and policy implications of a survey carried out on international low carbon energy access
- T. Geoghegan; S. Anderson; B. Dixon / Ashden Awards, 2008
- This report presents the preliminary results of a survey commissioned and funded by DFID, conducted on international low carbon energy access (LCEA) projects that won the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. The following are the findings:...
- National approaches to leverage climate finance effectively
- B. Müller / Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2009
- This comment discusses the need to devolve funding decisions to national (or, if more appropriate, regional) designated funding entities. It is about the rationale for devolving funding decisions to the recipients, as well as the need...
- Amplifying local voices in the national adaptation planning process
- A., T. Kuriakose; L. Bizikova; C., A. Bachofen / World Bank, 2009
- This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambi...
- Report on the 3rd international workshop on community-based adaptation
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009
- The Third International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 18-24 February 2009. The event was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), the Intern...
- Adaptation to climate change by indigenous Bangladesh people
- B., G. Gunter; A. Rahman; A., F. Ataur Rahman 2008
- This working paper compares the vulnerability to climate change of Bangladesh’s indigenous people with that of the Bengali population of Bangladesh in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Analysis of this study is based on distingu...
- Climate change and its impacts on Bangladesh
- J. S. Pender / Norwegian Church Aid, 2010
- This paper aims to summarise current international and national literature on climate change and put it into language which will be more easily understood by development practitioners in Bangladesh and elsewhere. Spe...
- 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...
