FILE - Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh, poses for a photo during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 8, 2021. Huq, who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, died of cardiac arrest Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. He was 71.
Huq published hundreds of scientific and popular articles and was named as one of the top 10 scientists in the world by the scientific journal Nature in 2022. Huq, who had been to every United Nations climate negotiations session, called Conferences of Parties , started a 20-year tradition of a special focus on adapting to climate change, initially called Adaptation Days, said Ebi. He did it by bringing a rural Bangladeshi farmer to the high-level negotiations to just talk about her experiences.