Context
Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by climate change. Impacts include heavy rainfall, flooding, cyclones, river erosion, heatwaves and other natural disasters. Every year, around 30 per cent of the land area is underwater due to monsoon rains and river floods. The climate change and the growth of informal settlements are creating complex problems in cities that cannot be adequately addressed due to limited resources and weak institutions. There is a lack of basic services, as well as insufficient affordable and needs-based infrastructure measures to make neighbourhoods more resilient to climate change and thus improve the urban population’s living conditions. Small and medium-sized cities do not have access to sufficient funds to implement climate-resilient infrastructure measures.
