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Environmental Studies students present research and explore opportunities in Bangladesh

1/25/2016

By Timmons Roberts

Eliza Drury ’16.5 and Kailani Acosta ’16 traveled with Professor Timmons Roberts to Bangladesh last week to present research and visit sites in the country impacted by climate change. The students' travel was supported by the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.

Drury, Acosta and Roberts traveled from Dhaka to Khulna, in the country’s coastal zone, and further, to a series of villages facing flooding, and visited civil society organizations seeking to address social and climate vulnerability in the region. Roberts described the trip and conference in a blog for the Brookings Institution, where he is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow.

Helping tomorrow's climate refugees by engaging today: A dispatch from Bangladesh

1/13/2016

By Timmons Roberts

I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used to fight the rising seas in a country so low that 30 million people may become refugees. For them to secure a livelihood in their home places, the developed countries need to be engaged, with our resources, our hands, and our minds. We simply cannot afford not to be here.

Vulnerable nations develop significant plans for Loss and Damage

1/6/2016

By Tory Hoffmeister

As global warming hits the world’s most vulnerable regions, developing countries continue to take matters into their own hands in the attempt to protect their citizens and economies. The issue of Loss and Damage featured significantly in a number of developing countries’ Intended National Determined Contributions (INDCs). The INDCs, which are now called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) following the successful conclusion of the UN climate talks last December in Paris, represent countries’ main national climate change plans and, beginning in 2020, will be revised every five years.

EcoAméricas December 2015 issue interviews the CDL's Guy Edwards

1/5/2016

The EcoAméricas interview looks at what the Paris Agreement on climate change could mean for Latin America, some of the challenges and opportunities presented by the agreement for the region; and why national debates in Latin American countries (and worldwide) addressing the new agreement, national climate and development plans and the Sustainable Development Goals need to start in earnest. We reproduce the interview in full below.

Environmental Studies students present research and explore opportunities in Bangladesh

Helping tomorrow's climate refugees by engaging today: A dispatch from Bangladesh

Vulnerable nations develop significant plans for Loss and Damage

EcoAméricas December 2015 issue interviews the CDL's Guy Edwards

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