The developed countries, which are responsible for the lion's share of carbon emissions, should accept climate migrants while also financing vulnerable states like Bangladesh, experts said at a seminar on Wednesday. "It is said that one in seven people in Bangladesh are going to be displaced by 2070.
Despite the government's commitment in the national plan to increase production of renewable energy, an investment proposal to produce 1,000 megawatts of solar power is waiting for approval at a time when the country is facing persistent power-cuts.
Many in Bangladesh have settled on the chars, islands in the middle of the river, formed of the silt that accumulates along the deltaic basin. But the river Meghna is swallowing many of these islands, leaving people homeless.