Papers by Jahangir Hasan Masum
Reason in a Dark Time, 2014
Exploring the current state of knowledge to assess climate change risks from local to national level
The Climate Change Induced Multi-Risks Assessment (CLIMA) is a tool for integrated assessment of ... more The Climate Change Induced Multi-Risks Assessment (CLIMA) is a tool for integrated assessment of climate vulnerability, hazards and risk from local to national scales. CLIMA is designed to assess the impacts of both current and future climate-related hazards to identify at-risk population and specific geographic location due to climate change. However, as climate-related risk assessment approaches must be tailored to specific biophysical and social conditions, CLIMA particularly focuses on improving the current climate risk assessment at community level to provide a comprehensive basis for community-driven climate risk reduction planning.
Climate change will have a massive impact on food production and may jeopardize food security in ... more Climate change will have a massive impact on food production and may jeopardize food security in many regions. Food Security is an integrated part of Food Sovereignty. Climate change will also influence the availability of water for human consumption and for food production. All the previous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) impact assessments recognized Bangladesh as one of the most susceptible to the negative impacts of climate change. Given the contribution of agriculture to the livelihoods of general people of the country and its dependence on climate regime, any significant change in climate regime can have far reaching impacts on the overall socio-economic system of Bangladesh. It is important to devise viable strategies and pro-poor policy approaches by integrating climate change, Food Sovereignty & Agriculture for reducing climate change vulnerability. In general, food sovereignty critically requires promotion of food availability (e.g. agricultural diversific...
100% Renewable Energy for Bangladesh: Summary for policy-makers, 2019
Ensuring energy security while lowering carbon emissions will be the key challenge for Low-Carbon... more Ensuring energy security while lowering carbon emissions will be the key challenge for Low-Carbon Development in Bangladesh. If low-carbon development paradigm is appropriately oriented towards poverty reduction, better nutrition, quality education, green infrastructure and sound health, then climate change risk and vulnerability will decline consistently to lead a low-carbon development pathway. The World also need to support Bangladesh for this endeavor, because Bangladesh has to suffer an annual loss of 2% of GDP by 2050 and 9.4% of GDP by 2100, if the World fails to take ambitious action for reducing carbon emissions.
The Paris Agreement is a consensus-based global climate governance framework to significantly red... more The Paris Agreement is a consensus-based global climate governance framework to significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Promoting sustainable development while mitigating climate change is the foremost development challenge of the world. The limiting the greenhouse gas emissions requires long-term and consistent focus on low-carbon economy to support low emission or green growth development practices and policies. To reduce carbon intensity, global or national economies must embrace gradual shift away from fossil-fuel energy. The transformation towards low carbon economy may require new institutional and governance arrangements. International co-operation, such as climate finance and technology transfer, is needed to help developing countries to address short term trade-offs involved with the low-carbon transition.
Understanding Human Insecurity for Surviving In the Climate Change Vulnerable Bangladesh
Around one million people are living in a water-imprisoned condition because of waterlogging in t... more Around one million people are living in a water-imprisoned condition because of waterlogging in the SW coastal region in Bangladesh. Moreover, five million people along with Biodiversity of the Sundarban ecosystem are also in endangering state due to increasing trend of water logging and salinity encroachment. Water-logging has been consistently reducing control of the coastal poor over wetland resources, both in terms of access and use. Most of the water-imprisoned people were part of the wetland community. Water-logging has created an avenue for the outsider rich people for monoculture of shrimp depriving the community access to wetlands. Even to keep the wetland community away from the wetlands, some of the corrupted government officials re-classified the wetlands to water-body and leased those out to outsider riches for shrimp farming which is unethical and illegal (Water-body is lease-able common resources as per the government policy but the natural wetlands cannot be leased out). Consequently, it is intensifying the livelihood vulnerability of the 6 million rural poor of the SW coastal region in Bangladesh.
The Country Case Study in Bangladesh is a part of the Scoping Study on Climate Change and Environ... more The Country Case Study in Bangladesh is a part of the Scoping Study on Climate Change and Environmental
Education in Asia Pacific by the CLIMATE Asia Pacific Network. The objective of the scoping study is to identify
the current state and gaps (in terms of policies and programs, structures and facilities; human resources; existing
practices and technologies/tools) with focus on the climate change education. The study findings envisaged that climate change issues should not be addressed in isolation as an environmental,
social or development related issue and climate change education could provide a potentially very powerful
mechanism to holistically address climate change like adaptation and mitigation.
Books by Jahangir Hasan Masum
Climate Change Induced Multi-Risks Assessment Toolkit, 2019
The Climate Change Induced Multi-Risks Assessment (CLIMA) is a tool for integrated assessment of ... more The Climate Change Induced Multi-Risks Assessment (CLIMA) is a tool for integrated assessment of climate vulnerability, hazards and risk from local to national scales. CLIMA is designed to assess the impacts of both current and future climate-related hazards to identify at-risk population and specific geographic location due to climate change. However, as climate-related risk assessment approaches must be tailored to specific biophysical and social conditions, CLIMA particularly focuses on improving the current climate risk assessment at community level to provide a comprehensive basis for community-driven climate risk reduction planning.
Climatic Hazards in Bangladesh: A Literature Review, 2019
Climate Risk Assessment Review, 2019
Exploring the current state of knowledge to
assess climate change risks from local to national level
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Papers by Jahangir Hasan Masum
Education in Asia Pacific by the CLIMATE Asia Pacific Network. The objective of the scoping study is to identify
the current state and gaps (in terms of policies and programs, structures and facilities; human resources; existing
practices and technologies/tools) with focus on the climate change education. The study findings envisaged that climate change issues should not be addressed in isolation as an environmental,
social or development related issue and climate change education could provide a potentially very powerful
mechanism to holistically address climate change like adaptation and mitigation.
Books by Jahangir Hasan Masum
Education in Asia Pacific by the CLIMATE Asia Pacific Network. The objective of the scoping study is to identify
the current state and gaps (in terms of policies and programs, structures and facilities; human resources; existing
practices and technologies/tools) with focus on the climate change education. The study findings envisaged that climate change issues should not be addressed in isolation as an environmental,
social or development related issue and climate change education could provide a potentially very powerful
mechanism to holistically address climate change like adaptation and mitigation.