Bangladesh climate change

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.

Displaced by climate change, almost half a million people flee to Bangladesh's capital every year.

A call for climate justice ahead of the Finance Ministers meeting in Lima.