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Saleemul Huq

Senior associate, Climate Change

Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, and is an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries. He was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC's fourth assessment report. 
Full biography

His current focus is on supporting the engagement of the Least Developed Countries in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is researching the least developed countries' vulnerability to climate change and the impact of adaptation measures.

Prior to becoming a senior associate, Saleem was a senior fellow with IIED, and was also previously director of the Climate Change research group. 

Expertise

Links between climate change and sustainable development, and particularly the perspective of developing countries.
Africa and South Asia, especially the least developed countries in those two regions.

Before IIED

Executive director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies

Current work

Building negotiating capacity and supporting the engagement of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), including negotiator training workshops for LDCs, policy briefings and support for the Adaptation Fund Board. Research into vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the LDCs.

Lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Lead Author of the chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC's fourth assessment report.

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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
saleemul.huq@iied.org
Twitter: @saleemulhuq
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Languages: English, Bengali and Hindi/Urdu

Saleemul Huq's blog posts

Woman cultivating a garden with plants and palm trees.

Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey

Blog, Jan 2021
A man walking in a flooded street

Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’

Blog, Apr 2020
An image of television footage of a man standing instead a destroyed house after Cyclone Roanu hit Bangaldesh (Photo: Google licence)

Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh: a story of loss and damage avoided

Blog, May 2016
Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)

Ten lessons on community-based adaptation

Blog, Mar 2016
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and is at the forefront of adaptation efforts. This homestead has been designed to offer flood protection (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Sharing knowledge to climb the adaptation ladder

Blog, Jul 2015
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)

2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries

Blog, Apr 2015
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