Saleemul Huq is Head, “Climate Change Group” in the International institute for environment and development (IIED). He is specialist of links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly perspective of developing countries. He works on research into vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the least developed countries.  He is lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and coordinating Lead Author of chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC's fourth assessment report (2007). He was Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

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