Climate Change and Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is likely to be among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. The Government of Bangladesh is acutely conscious of this, and has in fact been preparing to face this challenge for several years now. We realize that Climate Change is now an environmental as well as a developmental issue.

Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world and will become even more so as a result of climate change. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges and droughts are likely to become more frequent and severe in the coming years.

We realize that the Government of Bangladesh needs to carry its people along with it to face this enormous challenge. However, we can be confident that we can draw upon the traditional resilience, adaptability and innovativeness of our people, who have battled natural disasters over the centuries...

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Ahmed Sirajee wrote:

Please read what world bank had to say about South Asia before the COP15 http://bit.ly/5DMg6R / 3 days ago

scientist zubayer wrote:

Hi, friends !!! what are you doing right now??? do you know whats impacts of climate change? Its a kiyamat...has come in the world... we are Bangladeshi, Bangladesh is widely recognized to be one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. Less than 2 hours until COP15 begins.... please, speak loudly to stop climate change. Please, Please... / 5 days ago

Deepa Nurunnahar wrote:

hello there i want to join in your group as I am also concern about the climatic changes that already gives us sign negatively in Bangladesh! this is a high time to work together for raising people's activity to reduce the effects of climate change. I believe that we now can not change what we have done to the environment before but at least we can try to adapt ourselves with the changing environment without making any more bad effect on it. when I see the ice is falling in the sea its really feels like that Keyamot is ahead us! / 6 days ago

6 days agoscientist zubayer wrote:

Thanks for the joining and speak your mind clearly.
Pls. continue speak your veluable thinks...as a same about stop climate change...

scientist zubayer wrote:

Hi, friends !!! what are you doing right now??? do you know whats impacts of climate change? Its a kiyamat...has come in the world... we are Bangladeshi, Bangladesh is widely recognized to be one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. COP15 has countdowns.... please, speak loudly to stop climate change. Please, Please... / 6 days ago

scientist zubayer wrote:

Hei, friend !!! what are you doing right now??? COP15 has countdowns.... please, speak loudly to stop climate change. Bangladesh is widely recognized to be one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. It experiences frequent natural disasters, which cause loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, & adversely impacts on especially... / 7 days ago

7 days agoChristina Anderskov wrote:

Hi There, been working at at the Copenhagne Climate Exchange conference all day to spead the word - together with a lot of other good people:-) Now I'm of to a Danish style christmas lunch C

6 days agoscientist zubayer wrote:

Thanks Christina...

scientist zubayer wrote:

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE in BANGLADESH:
Climate change will exacerbate many of the current problems and natural hazards the country faces.

Please, speak loudly to stop climate change... / 8 days ago

scientist zubayer wrote:

In an 'average' year, approximately one quarter of the country is inundated. The people living in these areas have adapted by building their houses on
raised mounds and adjusting their farming systems. In the past, people here grew low-yielding deep water rice during the monsoon season. Now they mostly cultivate high-yielding rice crops, often using irrigation . Once in every 4 to 5 years, however, there is a severe flood that may cover over 60% of the country and cause loss of life and substantial damage to infrastructure, housing, agriculture and livelihoods. During severe floods, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who suffer most because their houses are often in more exposed locations.
Dhaka will have become a mega city with a population of over 40 million. The impact of higher and more intense rainfall will be felt in urban areas,
where drainage is already a serious problem and sewers frequently back-up in the monsoon season. / 10 days ago

Ahmed Sirajee wrote:

I am from Bangladesh, and the flood in main roads of Dhaka do not actually occur every year, as it occurs in the rural part of the country, and the water stays for month on end, but sudden downpours clog the sewerage and this kind of temporary inundation do take place in the lower parts of Dhaka during the monsoon. Don't get me wrong, I am not ignoring the fact that we are in danger, cause we really are. / 10 days ago

10 days agoscientist zubayer wrote:

Yeah,
In an 'average' year, approximately one quarter of the country is inundated.
Dhaka will have become a mega city with a population of over 40 million. The impact of higher and more intense rainfall will be felt in urban areas, where drainage is already a serious problem and sewers frequently back-up in the monsoon season. The poor, who live in slums and informal settlements, often in low-lying parts of cities, will be worst affected. With rapid and unplanned urbanization in Bangladesh, this is going to become an even more urgent and pressing problem.

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