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The first 40th anniversary public lecture in the region as part of the Speakers of Renown Series was held in Dhaka on March 16, 2010, with Dr Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, speaking on “Emerging Climate Change Issues: Gaps in Research, Policy and Practice.”  IDRC and the new International Centre for Climate Change and Development based at the Independent University, Bangladesh, jointly organized this lecture. The lecture was chaired by H.E. Robert McDougall, High Commissioner of Canada to Bangladesh.

 

“In coastal Bangladesh, climate change has a taste – it tastes of salt,” began Dr Rahman, quoting a visiting journalist who had done a piece recently on the impacts of climate change. He outlined the key factors making Bangladesh vulnerable to climate change and examined how the government is responding to them in the wider political context of climate negotiation processes pre- and post-Copenhagen (COP-15, December 2009). Among the research priorities he highlighted were the quantification of climate impacts and uncertainties; better vulnerability assessment; understanding the links between climate change, development, migration and human rights (climate ethics); and pathways toward low carbon growth.  Click here to see the presentation.

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