by Global Development Institute | Mar 1, 2017 | Comment, Events, Policy
By Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute I recently had the privilege of delivering a lecture at the IUB University and ICCCAD in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Much of the presentation was based on the recent book Bangladesh Confronts...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 15, 2017 | Events
Dhaka is on the front lines of climate change, but what does that mean to the people living in its slums? Research into urban climate change resilience, led Dr Joanne Jordan to team up with the University of Dhaka to produce a Pot Gan, a form of interactive indigenous...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 5, 2017 | Comment
Joanne Jordan continues our series on the big development trends to look out for in 2017 In 2016 the main focus around climate change issues was on ratifying and maintaining international momentum after the Paris Agreement. In the future I think we need to see much...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 24, 2016 | Comment
On Wednesday, 23 November, Dr Saleemul Huq from International Center for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka discussed The Magic Number: 1.5°C or 2°C Limit on Warming? And what does this actually mean for Least Developed Countries? You can find the video and...
by Global Development Institute | May 23, 2016 | Comment
Judith Krauss is a post-doctoral associate at the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College and researched cocoa sustainability for her PhD thesis. Can I ask you a question? Do you like chocolate? If your answer is ‘yes’, as for 100% of my focus-group and...
