The International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) yesterday arranged a sharing event on Gibika project and Resilience Academy 2015 in collaboration with Munich Re Foundation and United Nations University, Bonn.
This year’s Resilience Academy took place at the capital’s Hotel Nascent Gardenia yesterday morning where at least 30 young researchers, academics and practitioners from 22 countries took part in the event and shared their knowledge about the loss and damage caused by climate change.
The researchers, academics and practitioners from different countries have aimed to provide research based knowledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP22 in 2016 in Morocco.
According to a ICCCAD flier, Resilience Academy is meant to provide a platform for connecting communities of expertise. The first Resilience Academy was held at Savar in 2013 and the fourth Resilience Academy will be held near Munich in Germany next year from September 4-10.
Dr Saleemul Huq, director of ICCCAD, said the participants came together at the academy to brainstorm and develop their ideas and prepare for their individual research paper on the issue that they will work for next few months.
At COP22 in Morocco, which is scheduled to be held in December 2016, the structure, mandate and effectiveness of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage will be reviewed.
