Bangladesh climate change

Climate action in many Asian nations remains heavily leadership-driven, making it particularly susceptible to disruption.

Extreme weather reflects the country’s environmental vulnerability and weak environmental governance. 

The weather-related struggles faced by informal workers of India are intimately linked to the debt crisis that has long been brewing in the countryside.

In the face of climate change and fossil fuel projects, Bangladeshi fishers and farmers worry that their livelihoods are at great risk.

While the coal-fired Rampal power plant will generate 1,320 megawatts of electricity it will destroy mangrove forests, a natural barrier against climate change.

Despite having an abundance of potential for solar and wind energy, Bangladesh is ranked in the top five for global coal and gas power projects.

Its government has invested in climate-resilient infrastructure and job creation in towns like Mongla to attract at-risk people from low-lying areas.

Bangladesh is especially affected by negative effects of climate change and can function as role model to the developed and developing world.

A country of about 160 million, Bangladesh has historically contributed a fraction of the world's emissions but is being devastated by climate change.

While the country revises coal-based plans for power generation, a youth-led movement is calling for foreign energy financiers to back a “just transition.”

The U.S. special envoy on climate stopped in Bangladesh as part of a tour of climate change-vulnerable nations.

Cooperation around climate change could also pave way for normalization of relations between both countries.