Bangladesh Development
Research Center (BDRC)
“The greatest challenge mankind faces must be addressed within
a framework of commitment to global justice”
Saleemul Huq and Camilla Toulmin, London, November 7, 2006  
(http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/climate_justice_4073.jsp) .

I. International Planning Workshop on:
Conceptualizing Effective and Efficient Adaptation Policies to Climate Change in Bangladesh
 For further details about the workshop, please see:































II. How Vulnerable are Bangladesh’s Indigenous People to Climate Change?

    Abstract: This paper compares the vulnerabilities to climate change and climate variability of the indigenous people
    with the Bengali population of Bangladesh. It distinguishes between (a) individual vulnerabilities that are related to
    an individual’s capability to adapt to climate change and; (b) spatial vulnerabilities, that is, vulnerabilities that are
    related to the location of a person (like the exposure to climate change-induced disasters). While an individual’s
    capability to adapt to climate change is determined by many factors, some relatively simple approximation is to look
    at poverty, landlessness, and illiteracy. Spatial vulnerabilities are reviewed by looking at drought hazard maps, flood
    hazard maps, landslide hazard maps, and cyclone hazard maps. Hence, the paper compares levels of poverty,
    landlessness, illiteracy, and the more direct though also more subjective exposures to increased droughts, floods,
    landslides, and cyclones across the two population groups. The paper concludes with suggestions for adaptation
    strategies of indigenous people as well as suggestions for policy interventions to reduce climate change-induced
    vulnerabilities for indigenous people.

    Revised Paper available at:
    i)        Bangladesh Development Research Working Paper Series
    ii)       Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
    iii)      RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)    


III. The Impact of Development and Growth on CO2 Emissions: A Case Study for Bangladesh
until 2050
A new study by Bernhard G. Gunter and A. Atiq Rahman uses the example of Bangladesh to illustrate the impact of low-
income countries’ economic growth on global CO2 emissions in 2050 by using a set of alternative assumptions for GDP
growth and improvements in energy efficiency.  The study was presented at the 5th bi-annual conference of the United
States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2009.

Please click here to see the presentation (pdf).  
The paper is available at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.org/BDRWPS-home.html.


IV. Climate Change and Bangladesh - Annotated Bibliography  
Last time updated on January 5, 2010.

Previous versions published on:
  • May 19, 2009
  • January 15, 2009
  • November 27, 2008
  • October 27, 2008

Jointly with Bangladesh’s Climate Change Cell, the BDRC provides a comprehensive
which contains information on 406 publications addressing climate change in Bangladesh.

This publication also contains the names of and links to some 70 website resources, structured into four sections:  (a)
main international organizations working on climate change; (b) research centers/institutes that focus on climate change;
(c) websites of networks and/or websites with specific tools, projects, etc.; and (d) climate change related newsletters
specifically on Bangladesh. Please note that this publication is provided only electronically as: (i) it contains more than
300 hyperlinks/website addresses which provide readers further information, (ii) the electronic version allows readers to
search the contents, and (iii) it is planned to be updated frequently.


V. Other Information on Climate Change

1. Key Action-Related Documents:

2. Other climate change conference websites (in reverse chronological order):   

COP15 - United Nations Climate Change Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark (November 30 - December 11, 2009)

World Climate Conference-3
Geneva, Switzerland (August 31 - September 4, 2009)

3rd International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change (pdf)
Dhaka, Bangladesh (February 22-26, 2009)

A presentation on “The Case of the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta” was held on February 11, 2009
at the Second World Forum on Delta & Coastal Development (Aquaterra 2009) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For
further information, please see: http://www.aquaterraforum.com/aquaterra2009/e/exp_overig152

Climate Change and Urban Poverty - Infrastructures of Development
Dhaka: BRAC Centre Auditorium (28. January 2009)

United Nations Climate Change Conference
Poznań, Poland (December 1-12, 2008)

International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia
Dhaka, Bangladesh (August 25-29, 2008)

OneWorld South Asia’s Seventh Annual Regional Meeting on the theme “Climate Justice
for Realisation of the MDGs: Southern Perspectives and Voices”
New Delhi, India (February 8-9, 2008)


3. Other interesting website resources:

Kazipur, Sirajganj, Bangladesh [by Doreen Marie Indra and Norman Buchignani; undated]
An anthropological and photographic exploration of riverbank erosion and flood in rural Bangladesh

Bangladesh—Eco Symbol? [by Sebastian Strangio; May 28, 2010]
Often derided as a basket case, Bangladesh might just have a thing or two to show the world about tackling climate
change.

Bangladesh’s Solar Powered Floating Schools [BDRC Task; June 20,  2011]
Some resources related to Bangladesh’s innovative way to adapt to climate change with solar powered floating schools.
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Presentations made on Day 1:

Shireen Kamal Sayeed, Assistant Country Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh

Mozaharul Alam, Research Fellow, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)

Bernhard G. Gunter, President, Bangladesh Development Research Center (BDRC)

John D. Shilling, Chairman, Board of Trustees, MI