Full Description
This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating Bangladesh's battle against climate change with regard to relevant international legal instruments, as well as national laws and policies. The Post-Paris global climate regime considers adaptation, mitigation, climate finance, technology transfer, capacity building, and compensation for losses and damage associated with climate change as essential tools for combating it. This book includes chapters on each of the above topics. Additionally, it covers integrating digital technologies in climate-smart agricultural practices, government land acquisition practices and their repercussions on changing land conditions, the legal landscape overseeing climate change and foreign direct investment, and the regulatory interplay between domestic trade and climate policies in Bangladesh.
The book comprehensively covers climate justice issues by addressing climate-induced migration, access to clean water, gender-responsive climate action, public interest environmental litigation, and, above all, the climate-change-development nexus in Bangladesh.
This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, university students, and practitioners in international environmental law and climate change law.
Contents
PART 1: Climate Change, Bangladesh, and the Law Nexus.- Chapter 1: Impacts of Climate Change on Bangladesh: International Legal Discourses and National Legal Responses (Md. Saiful Karim & Md. Mahatab Uddin).- Chapter 2: Legal and Policy Response to Climate Change in Bangladesh (K Shamsuddin Mahmood).- PART 2: Adaptation and Capacity Building.- Chapter 3: Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives in Bangladesh: Navigating Towards Resilience and Sustainability (Md. Mahmud Hossain & Mirza Shawkat Ali).- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Adaptation and Adaptive Governance in Water Sector in South Asia: The Bangladesh Case in the Regional Context (M. Monirul Qader Mirza & Ajaya Dixit).- Chapter 5 : Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation in Bangladesh: International Climate law perspectives (Noor Jahan Punam).- Chapter 6: Rethinking Land Acquisition Law in the Era of Climate Change (Nasreen Akhter).- Chapter 7: Enhancing Climate Resilience in Bangladesh: A Closer Look at Capacity Building (Md. Mahatab Uddin, M Munjurul Hannan Khan & Jannatul Shareat Disha).- PART 3: Mitigation and Energy Efficiency.- Chapter 8: Law and Policy Approaches for Climate Change Mitigation: Bangladesh Perspectives (Md. Mahatab Uddin & Mridul Bepari).- Chapter 9: Energy Law and Policy of Bangladesh in Mitigating Climate Change (Md Asaduzzaman).- PART 4: Climate-Finance, Trade, and Investment.- Chapter 10: Climate Finance Flow in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities (Md. Golam Rabbani).- Chapter 11: Climate Change Considerations in International Investment Law: The Case for Bangladesh (Rumana Islam & Shahrima Tanjin Arni).- Chapter 12: Domestic-Level Climate and Trade Policy Interaction in Bangladesh (Zaker Ahmed).- PART 5: Technology and Law.- Chapter 13: Harmonizing Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law to Enable the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies in Bangladesh (Md. Mahatab Uddin).- Chapter 14: Participatory Approaches to Digital Technology Adoption for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Bangladesh (Md. Mahatab Uddin & Fahad Bin Siddique).- PART 6: Climate Justice.- Chapter 15: Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change: Towards Developing a 'National Mechanism' in Bangladesh (Abdullah Al Faruque).- Chapter 16: Public Interest Environmental Litigation (PIEL) to Tackle Climate Change in Bangladesh: Growth, Challenges and Future (Muhammad Ekramul Haque & Ali Mashraf).- Chapter 17: Protecting People's Access to Clean Water in Bangladesh (Rakiba Nabi).- Chapter 18: International Law and Climate-Induced Migration: The Case of Bangladesh (Md. Mahatab Uddin, Abdul Awal Khan & Jannatul Shareat Disha).- Chapter 19: "Up an up!" Gender-responsive Climate Action in Bangladesh and the Way Forward (Raihanatul Jannat).- Chapter 20: The Climate Change-Development Nexus: A New Development Landscape for Bangladesh (Tanzim Afroz, Preeti Kana Sikder & Mostafa M Naser).
