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| Name | Bangladesh town offers new life to climate migrants |
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| Video Discription | (30 Mar 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4372699 In Bangladesh, more than 19 million people are expected to become internal climate refugees by 2050, according to the World Bank — almost half the projected number for the entire South Asia region. Climate scientists say low-lying Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and millions are at the risk of being displaced — becoming climate migrants because of sea level rise, river erosion, cyclonic storms and intrusion of saline water. Mongla, a town once vulnerable to floods and river erosion has improved its resilience with improved infrastructure, and now is offering a new life to thousands of climate migrants. Recent investment in an export processing zone (EPZ) that houses factories has created new opportunities for refugees from climate-impacted areas within Bangladesh who have lost their homes, land and livelihood due to impacts of climate change. Some 150,000 people now live in Mongla — many of whom moved from villages near the Sundarbans forest, the world's largest mangrove forest which straddles the border of Bangladesh and India and harbors endangered Bengal tigers. Saleemul Huq, director of the Dhaka-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development, said Mongla, a "climate-resilient, migrant-friendly town," was the first his organization had helped to develop. The goal is to create opportunities for climate migrants to live and work in an environment where the host population accepts them. Huq said that using an approach of transformative adaptation in about two dozen small coastal towns including Mongla, at least 10 million climate refugees could be resettled, rather than forcing them to move to slums in big cities like Dhaka, the nation's capital. One of the town's new residents, Monira Khatun, 29, was devastated after her husband abandoned her suddenly. She returned to her father only to face another blow: He died soon after, leaving her to shoulder three other family members' care. Without any work, she was worried about how she would feed them. She ended up working at a factory that employs thousands of climate refugees in Mongla. "This EPZ is good for me because I couldn't travel far for work," Khatun said. "Whatever I earn, I spend it on my family, myself and then to pay debts." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/efed994af08d4578ab609bb2938a0ef2 |
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