Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh: The need for community-based approaches
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Sajal Roy
Institute for Culture and Society, Humanitarian and Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University & Lecturer, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Begum Rokeya University, Park More, Modern, Rangpur, Rangpur, 5404 Bangladesh
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Development Studies, College of Science & Engineering, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Australia
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Sajal Roy
Institute for Culture and Society, Humanitarian and Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University & Lecturer, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Begum Rokeya University, Park More, Modern, Rangpur, Rangpur, 5404 Bangladesh
Search for more papers by this authorKearrin Sims
Development Studies, College of Science & Engineering, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Australia
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Climate change is a leading threat to sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh. Adverse impacts of climatic disasters including flash floods, recurrent cyclones and erratic rainfall patterns are already causing hardship for both rural and urban people and are expected to accelerate into the future. The aim of this research note is to identify the core contributing economic sectors to climate change in Bangladesh, and to consider effective mitigation strategies. Following the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (2014), in this paper, we argue that comprehensive mitigation measures are required in the energy, transport, buildings, industry and land-use sectors to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Our findings indicate that it is crucial that government and non-government mitigation efforts engage with community knowledge practices in order to most effectively reduce GHG emissions and combat the adverse impacts of climate change.
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