1st Edition
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building
Chapter 1: "Puzzling, Confusing, and…Vacuous:" Capacity building from the World Bank to climate governance
Chapter 2: The meager history and politics of capacity building under the UNFCCC
Chapter 3: Has it worked elsewhere? Capacity building efforts in development and environmental regimes
Chapter 4: Needed: a capacity building framework that’s up to the task
Chapter 5: Case studies of capacity building in Bangladesh, Uganda, and Jamaica
With Shaila Mahmud, Revocatus Twinomuhangi, Joseph Epitu and Stacy-ann Robinson
Chapter 6: Lessons learned from agency initiatives on capacity building
With Julianna Bradley
Chapter 7: Universities as the central hub of capacity building
With Shaila Mahmud, Revocatus Twinomuhangi and Stacy-ann Robinson
Chapter 8: Capacity Building and Transparency Under Paris
With Stacy-ann Robinson
Chapter 9: Implementing the Paris framework on capacity building
Biography
Mizan R. Khan is a Professor of Environmental Management at North South University, Bangladesh, and a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. He serves as a lead member in the Bangladesh delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations since 2001. .
J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, Providence, IR, USA, and founder and leader of the Climate and Development Lab at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.
Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a frequent advisor for the Least Developed Countries negotiating group. He has also been a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports.
Victoria Hoffmeister is an analyst at Redstone Strategy Group, working as a consultant for climate- and conservation-focused foundations and nonprofits. She worked for three years as a member of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown University, as well as in the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Obama administration.
