Umme Sayeda

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Umme Sayeda is a Bangladeshi researcher, international relations scholar, and advocate for ecological justice.
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Let the Dunes Defend the Coast

Climate Change
Restoring indigenous sand dunes and vegetation could offer Cox’s Bazar a nature-based defence against erosion, waves and storms while protecting coastal ecosystems. Once, sand dunes...

Could the Mecca Defence Pact reshape Bangladesh’s hydro diplomacy?

Thoughts
Bangladesh’s proposed role in the Mecca Defence Pact could broaden its diplomatic leverage on water security, while raising questions about regional tensions and obligations. Sixty-seven-year-old...

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOLAR REVOLUTION: A hope for renewable Bangladesh

Energy
As Bangladesh adopts the Renewable Energy Policy 2025, experts stress community participation as key to achieving its solar ambitions. From floating schools to peer-to-peer...

DEBT FOR L&D SWAP: Bangladesh’s triple-win solution to rehabilitate climate refugees

Climate Finance
Bangladesh faces rising debt and climate displacement, with 13.3 million people projected to be displaced by 2050. A debt-for-Loss & Damage (L&D) swap offers...

Climate-Health Challenges : Local adaptation cornerstone of climate resilience

Climate Change
Increasing temperatures, fluctuating climatic and seasonal patterns, and extreme weather events are leading to heat stress, contagious disease surge, and climate change-fueled psychological challenges Countries...

Restoring rivers socio-culturally imperative to Bangladesh 2.0

Environment
Rivers are the lifelines of Bangladesh, yet they are in dire straits. I remember vividly the day I crossed the Buriganga River on my...