Poor are already paying the cost of adapting to climate shifts - expert
05 Dec 2010
Aimon, a survivor of Cyclone Aila, takes part in a demonstration on the first anniversary of the cyclone in Dhaka in May. Hundreds of survivors gathered at the University of Dhaka to demand that the government make their rehabilitation a top priority. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
CANCUN, Mexico (AlertNet) – Adaptation to the effects of climate change is already well underway around the world, with many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable digging into their own shallow pockets to pay for it, according to a leading Bangladesh development and environmental specialist.
In Bangladesh, for instance, families facing worsening problems with storm surges, intense rainfall and flooding are busy raising the level of their homes, toilets and animal shelters to keep them above water, said Atiq Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.
That is happening even as climate negotiators at this week’s UN talks in Cancun continue struggling towards a deal on how to raise and channel an agreed $100 billion a year in international climate assistance funding to the world’s most vulnerable nations by 2020./.../
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