ISAS Briefs

Bangladesh is a densely populated country whose vulnerability to climate change seriously threatens its impressive development credentials. Its policy in this regard is based on the knowledge-based Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, largely focussed on adaptation issues, but also takes mitigation measures into account. While, to-date, it is assessed as successful, in the future, it must adjust to certain changing socio-economic circumstances such as rapid urbanisation, as well as human-induced issues like influx of cross-frontier political refugees (the Rohingya). This paper reviews past policies with analyses and makes some recommendations for the future