Bangladesh

Question 1

Current emissions per capita/yr

Answer 1

0.5 tons/capita/yr in 2021

Question 2

Current environmental threats - flooding

Answer 2

10% of country within 1m above sea level
Ganges Delta made up of alluvium which is vulnerable to flooding

Question 3

Current environmental threats - cyclones

Answer 3

Bay of Bengal has warm sea temps and warming - so increased cyclone risk and therefore storm surge risk

Question 4

Current environmental threats - recent floods

Answer 4

June 2022 floods - 7.2 million affected

Question 5

Current environmental opportunities

Answer 5

countries ecosystem is changing which will benefit some organisms - crabs, shrimp etc.
flooding will provide increased soil fertility in the long term

Question 6

Current socio-economic threats/negative impacts
How many at risk of flooding/vulnerable

Answer 6

20 mil ppl live just above the water line
3.5 million Bangladeshis are currently at risk of flooding every year

Question 7

Current socio-economic threats/negative impacts
lack of protection

Answer 7

Embankments are not high enough to protect from storm surges, will be even worse as sea levels rise

Question 8

Current socio-economic threats/negative impacts
Drinking water

Answer 8

Groundwater being intruded by salt water due to rising sea levels
making drinking water undrinkable

Question 9

Current socio-economic threats/negative impacts
Future relocation

Answer 9

20% of Bangladeshis will need to be relocated in the next decade

Question 10

Current socio-economic threats/negative impacts
Recent floods

Answer 10

June 2022 floods - worst in NE Bangladesh for a century
millions displaced, over 50 deaths, 7.2 million affected

Question 11

Current socio economic opportunities from CC

Answer 11

Many farmers now switching to lucrative crab or fish farming in areas like Sundarbans
Others migrating to Dhaka - 500,000 people/yr (rural - urban migration)

Question 12

Bangladesh mitigation strategies

Answer 12

Locally produced ceramic stoves now more widespread in rural Bang, they produce half CO2 than normal as need less fuel
National mitigation strategies have made some effort to ensure Low Carbon Development

Question 13

Challenges to mitigation in Bangladesh
socio-economic

Answer 13

V poor population, low literacy and low education so therefore hard to get people to engage with CC mitigation - don’t care/understand and can’t afford

Question 14

Challenges to mitigation in Bangladesh
political

Answer 14

Bangladesh under represented at global meeting like COP and no specialist science envoy to represent their interest - not helped by international agreements

Question 15

Challenges to mitigation in Bangladesh
Technological

Answer 15

Unlikely to be able to invest in/afford advanced renewable projects for producing energy

Question 16

Adaptation strategies in Bangladesh

Answer 16

Salt tolerant rice crops
Embankments raised to protect communities and farmland
Disaster preparedness programmes (DPPs) developed such as Cyclone PP (CPP)
Climate refugee housing project - Khrushul Special Ashrayan Project - over 20,000 apartment blocks for Bangladeshi climate refugees
Desalination plants being built
Switching to shrimp farming

Question 17

Challenges to adaptation strategies in Bangladesh
Socio-econ

Answer 17

price to build large scale adaptation strategies is too much
very expensive to build the drainage channels needed to protect Dhaka - that means other areas left unprotected - need to prioritise –> inequalities

Question 18

Challenges to adaptation strategies in Bangladesh
political

Answer 18

decisions on where to build new embankments are difficult as some areas will have to be left undefended

Question 19

Challenges to adaptation strategies in Bangladesh
tech

Answer 19

research into desalination of water is slow as not enough people with technical expertise and then not enough locals who could understand and implement