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Climate change and Bangladesh
12 Jun 2008 15:27:18 GMT
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Norwegian Church Aid has supported the production of a new report on climate change and its consequences on Bangladesh.

The report was written by James Pender, development and Natural resource advisor at the Church of Bangladesh Social Development Programme in Rajshani, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to extreme weather, being located in a region reguarly affected by floods and cyclones. The country has already begun to feel the effects of the changing climate. Flood periods are longer and the cyclones that hit the country are now stronger and cause greater devastation than earlier.

Norwegian Church Aid has chosen to focus on Bangladesh in its continued work with climate change and its consequences for poor people aropund the world.

Click on the following link to download the report:
What is climate change and how will it affect Bangladesh.

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

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