Saleemul Huq, a Bangladeshi-British scientist who gained renown as a “climate revolutionary” for his efforts to make high-polluting countries help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable states deal with the devastating impacts of climate change, died Oct. 28 in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. He was 71.His death was confirmed by the International Center for Climate Change and Development, a Bangladesh-based research organization that he headed.
That accord culminated a 30-year quest to set up such a fund separate from money to be used to help countries adapt to climate change. But meetings and workshops are still underway to “design” the fund and resolve issues such as its location and contributors, said Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at the Climate Action Network. Among the other outstanding issues are how much money the fund would contain, who would benefit and who should run it.
Singh described Dr. Huq as “the leading voice calling for adaptation when the whole world was calling for emissions reductions.” He worked to raise awareness of the needs of communities that are “already impacted and going to be impacted” by climate change, he said.Dr. Huq was “the intellectual architect of what we now call Locally Led Adaptation,” Patrick Verkooijen, chief executive of the Netherlands-based Global Center on Adaptation, wrote on the research organization’s website.
After returning to Bangladesh, he co-founded an independent think tank specializing in environmental policy, the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, and encouraged the establishment of a government department, which became the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.Survivors include his wife, Kashana Huq; a son, Saqib Huq, who is assistant director at the Dhaka center led by his father; and a daughter, Sadaf Huq.
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