Prof. Saleemul Huq speaks on "Dealing with the COVID19 pandemic while positioning to tackle climate change: some emerging lessons from Bangladesh." Please join us for this talk on Zoom. Please sign up on the right side in the form, then receive the Zoom link within 8 hours of the time of the presentation.

Dr. Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) and Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London and past Director of the Climate Change Programme at the institute. He has worked extensively in the inter-linkages between climate change (both mitigation as well as adaptation) and sustainable development, from the perspective of the developing countries, with special emphasis on least developed countries (LDCs). He has published numerous articles in scientific and popular journals, was a lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and was one of the coordinating lead authors of ‘Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation’ in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007). He has been ranked among “World’s 100 most influential people in climate policy for 2019.”