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Bangladesh: Cutting off our heads to cure a headache?

3 July 2014 in Climate Change, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Three years ago my team visited Khulna, a district in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. We went to meet the communities trying to rebuild their lives there after their villages were almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Aila in 2009. To assist the rebuilding, the Bangladesh government lent its support, channelled through a trust fund […]

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Corruption must not capsize a sinking state: shoring up the Maldives’ climate sector

13 January 2014 in Climate Change, Measurement and Research, Politics and government

In 2011 the then-president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, held a televised cabinet meeting underwater. Armed with oxygen tanks and waterproof pens, ministers signed a document calling on countries to slash their carbon emissions. Nasheed also pledged to make the Maldives fossil fuel-free by 2020, and announced his intent to buy land in neighbouring India […]

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