7th Training on ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation’
Course Background
Extreme and slow onset events of climate change are posing severe threats to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh. Poor and vulnerable people are mostly affected by climate change impacts, such as floods, droughts, cyclones, storm surge and other extreme and slow onset events. Thus, a solid understanding of climate change impacts, policies and actions is imperative to ensure mainstreaming and better aligning climate action in terms of both, resilience building, climate disaster risk reduction, and emission reduction across policies, programs, and socio-economic sectors. The training on ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation’ is designed to reflect the international state of the art in climate science, climate policies, and practical experience gained on the ground that will strengthen participants knowledge base and sharpen their professional profile.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to
• Explain basic concepts of climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas and its consequences
• Describe disaster management concept and able to linkage between Climate Change & Disaster Management
• Recognize the severity of climate change impacts and the urgency of climate action
• Have understanding on Climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation actions in livestock, fisheries, water, forestry and biodiversity sector, Nature Based Solutions (NbS)
• Analyze gender differentiated impacts and mainstream gender in Climate Change projects
• Have sound understanding of global and national climate change & disaster policy and climate finance
• Have an understanding on Loss and Damage in Bangladesh
• Have an advanced understanding on community resilience building approaches and frameworks
• Have understanding of low carbon development and renewable energy technologies
Course content
The course is structured into four modules, which consist of face-to-face sessions, excursion and e-learning materials. It will provide thematic knowledge as well as equipping learners with methodological competences. All modules reflect state-of-the-art concepts and update issues in order to better understand the complex relations and interactions between changing ecosystems and social structures and processes at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Module 1: Climate Change Science and Scenarios & Disaster Management
• Climate Change Science
• Future plausible scenario based on IPCC AR6
• Climate Change impacts and vulnerability at Global & Bangladesh context
• Understanding Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management
• Linkage (comparative discussion) between climate change and disaster
Module 2: Sectoral climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation actions
• Understanding and conceptual framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
• Sectoral impacts of Climate Change on agriculture and Food security, Livestock, Fisheries, Water, Forestry and Biodiversity
• Technological solutions, adaptation and mitigation options in Bangladesh and beyond
• Renewable energy and Nature based solutions
Module 3: Gender, Loss & Damage, Climate finance, Climate Change & Disaster policies/frameworks, and Resilience
• Gender & Climate Change
• Loss and damage
• National and international climate finance
• National and International climate change and disaster risk reduction policies/frameworks
• Resilience Building
Module 4: Explore climate and disaster hotspot areas beyond the classroom
• Study tour to climate vulnerable area (Shyamnagar) for five days to explore and internalize the impacts & vulnerabilities of climate change and gain first-hand experience on how people are becoming resilient in that area
Course methodology
The training course will provide participants with a sound understanding and innovative way, presented by a group of highly professional lecturers and trainers. The training method include introduction to the topic, expert presentations, interactive exercises, reflection on relevance topic, honorary lectures by distinguished speakers, field visit, topic-wise assessment, standardize evaluation mechanism.
Resource pool
The training will be conducted by:
• Distinguished Sectoral Climate Experts
• Climate Scientists
• Leading Academics
• Policy Makers
• Sectoral Expert Practitioners
• Contextual Field Specialists
Participant criteria
The training is designed for professionals working in the field of climate change, agriculture, food security, natural resources management, forestry, rural development, sustainable development and other relevant areas from development sector, university and institution, research organization, governmental officials, private sector, media and other development sectors.
Duration
The total duration is 15 days in consecutive 3 months.
First Term: 12th – 16th January, 2025
Second Term: 09th – 13th February, 2025
Final Term: 09th – 13th March, 2025
Venue: CCDB Climate Centre, Gazipur and Shyamnagar, Satkhira.
Course Fee: This training is fully residential. The training fee is BDT 100,000 per person. A limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Total seat: 25 participants
Application Deadline: 30th November, 2024 (Applications may close early depending on seat availability. We encourage early bird registration.)
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Reach us at the following contact:
Abdul Alim Shaikh
Manager Capacity Building
Climate Change Program, CCDB
Cell: 01717614980
Email: alim@ccdbbd.org