Bangladesh and Climate Change: Recipe for Disaster

Bangladesh, at the triangular tip of the Bay of Bengal, is home to an astonishing 40 percent of the world’s storm surges. In 1971 and 1990, it experienced two of the deadliest such storms in history, killing 500,000 and 140,000 people respectively. It is arguably the world’s most vulnerable country to climate change.

In 2018 alone, Bangladesh’s Meteorolo…