ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION & ADAPTATION

Climate change is a global phenomenon. It is a serious risk to poverty alleviation and threatens to undo decades of developmental efforts. The adverse effects of climate change have already been evident with natural disasters becoming more frequent and more devastating. Especially, people from developing countries are more vulnerable to these phenomena because of their high dependence on natural resources and their limited capacity to cope with climate variability and extremes. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world which faces the adverse impacts of global warming and climate change. Health, energy, water supply, sanitation, industry (mining and construction), transport, trade, tourism, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, environmental protection & ecosystem, goods & services and food security are the key development sectors of the country directly affected by climate change. Bank Asia has been trying to participate actively in an environment-friendly economy to protect the environment due to rapid climate change.