Climate change and poverty

Climate migration in Bangladesh

28 March 2008

Shawpan, SKS boatman, navigating the staff boat funded through Oxfam GB to the char areas which can only be reached by boat. Photo: Jane Beesley/OxfamOxfam's Nikki Bennett has contributed a good piece on Bangladesh, with some great photos, to the New York Times. Nikki is currently working on post-hurricane reconstruction there, and she highlights how the country, already devastated by floods, and where 70 per cent of the land is flood plain, faces acute danger from increasing climate change-related events.

Bangladesh    floods   

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