High End cLimate Impact and eXtremes (HELIX)

HELIX EXPERT Workshop

Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh After Paris Agreement
30 April 2016, Council Bhaban, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Time

Event

08:30 am - 09:00 am

Arrival of the Guest

Registration
Welcome Address
Dr. Mashfiqus Salehin, Director, IWFM, BUET
Overview of the HELIX Project
Dr. Richard Betts, Team Lead, HELIX & Professor, Exeter
University
Impact of the High End Climate Change for India
Dr. A.K. Gosain, Lead WP9, HELIX & Professor, IIT-Delhi, India
Impact of High End Climate Change for Bangladesh
Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Islam, Institutional Lead (BUET), HELIX &
Professor, IWFM, BUET
Paris Agreement: Achievement, Expectations and Way
Forward
Dr. Ainun Nishat, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University
Towards COP 22: Challenges for Bangladesh
Dr. Md. Asaduzzaman, Research Director, BIDS
Needs for Adapting Climate Change
Dr. Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, BCAS
Importance of Loss and Damage Assessment for LDC Countries
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, ICCAD
Climate Finance outcome from the Paris Agreement
Dr. Mizan R. Khan, Professor, North South University
Speech of the Special Guest on COP21 Presidency
H.E. Mrs Sophie Aubert, Ambassador of France to Bangladesh
Speech of the Chief Guest
Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud, MP
Honorable Minister, Ministry of Water Resources
Concluding Remarks by the Chair
Professor Khaleda Ekram, Vice Chancellor, BUET
Tea/Coffee Break

09:00 am - 09:10 am
09:10 am - 09:20 am
09:20 am - 09:30 am
09:30 am - 09:40 am
09:40 am - 09:50 am
09:50 am - 10:00 am
10:00 am - 10:10 am
10:10 am - 10:20 am
10:20 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 10:40 am
10:40 am - 10:50 am
10:50 am -11:00 am
11:00 am -11:30 pm

Time

Event

11:30 am - 01:30 pm

Technical Session
Session Chair: Professor Ricard Betts; Co-Chair: Prof. Saiful Islam
Climate Change Scenarios for Bangladesh
Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Islam, Institutional Lead (BUET), HELIX &
Professor, IWFM, BUET
Impact of Extreme Climate Change in India focusing Ganges
Basin
Dr. Sandhya Rao, Co-investigator, HELIX, IIT-Delhi, India
Changes of Floods and Low Flow of the Brahmaputra River
Basin
Dr. G.M. Tarekul Islam, Professor, IWFM, BUET
Vulnerability of Coastal Region Under Extreme Climatic
Conditions
Dr. Sujit Kumar Bala, Professor, IWFM, BUET
DECCMA - Deltas, vulnerability and climate change: migration
and adaptation
Dr. Munsur Rahman, Professor, IWFM, BUET
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 Formulation
Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Project Director, Bangladesh Delta Plan
2100
Challenges of Climate Change Adaptation in Tidal River
System Zone of Bangladesh
Dr. Hamidul Huq, Professor, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
(ULAB)
Impact of Sea Level rise in the inundation and storm surges of
the coast of Bangladesh
Abdur Rahman Tazkia, Research Assistant, IWFM, BUET
Impact of High End climate on Agriculture and food security
Sajid Hasan, Research Assistant, IWFM, BUET
End of Workshop and Lunch

01:30 pm - 02:30 pm

HELIX EXPERT Workshop

Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh after Paris Agreement
Background
Climate change is a reality now and being demonstrated across the globe through various climate
events. Warming up of our earth with gradual increase of temperature as forecasted by the
scientific community is no longer a myth. Climate change beyond 2C, 4C and 6C is to impact
severely as a result of "extreme" events to be occurred in upcoming years. To address this
problem, an initiative has been taken through the project "HELIX". The High-End cLimate Impacts
and eXtremes (HELIX) is a collaborative project funded by European Union, which started in
November 2013, with sixteen participating institutions led by the Exeter University, UK.
Assessment of climate change will be conducted in HELIX on a global scale under a range of
physical and socio-economic condition with consideration of different adaptations scenarios. As
a partner of HELIX, we will focus on South Asia(case study: Bangladesh) for the apprehended
implications of higher-end scenarios beyond 2C, 4C and 6C and possible warming of the world
upon different bio-physical systems of the country like agriculture, water resources, ecology,
infrastructure, health, socio-economy etc. In this stakeholder workshop, valued participants are
expected to provide their important ideas, expectations and insights upon which this study will
get valuable intellectual inputs for the way forward in the research process.

Temperature anamoly relative to

pre-industrail period (C)

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5
4

3
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1
0

2000

2020

2040

ACCESS1_CSIRO-CCAM-1391M
CNRM-CM5_SMHI-RCA4
EC-EARTH_SMHI-RCA4
MIROC5_SMHI-RCA4
MPI-ESM-LR_MPI-REMO2009
GFDL-ESM2M_SMHI-RCA4

2060

2080

2100

CCSM4_CSIRO-CCAM-1391M
CNRM-CM5_CSIRO-CCAM-1391M
IPSL-CM5A-MR_SMHI-RCA4
MPI-ESM-LR_CSIRO-CCAM-1391M
MPI-ESM-LR_SMHI-RCA4

Figure: Multi-model Ensemble projections of temperature Anomaly relative to preindustrial

period (1861-1880) (LEFT) and the same for Bangladesh using RCM under RCP 8.5 Scenarios
(RIGHT).