In the first section of a two-part interview, Saleemul Huq, senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in the United Kingdom, talks to Anita Makri about how policies on climate change, development and disaster reduction are separate at the global level but become increasingly connected as they progress down to the local level. He also discusses the role of scientific evidence and how it can help vulnerable communities improve their participation in decisions that affect them.

Saleemul Huq on how climate change policy works at the global and local

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