Climate migrants escaping to Dhaka find that their new home is also sinking (scroll.in)
Dr Syed Humayun Akhter, a geologist and vice chancellor of Bangladesh Open University, said as the underground water extraction goes on at an unsustainable rate, Dhaka will continue to sink, with some parts of it suffering subsidence at varying scale and intensity.
Chittagong, on the other hand, has been identified as one of the coastal cities in Asia subsiding at a rate almost 10 times faster than the sea level is rising. Similar to Manila in the Philippines, it has sunk by as much as 20 mm per year over a 5-year period, during 2015-2020.
Bangladesh is increasing the climate allocation in its national budget every year. The government created a $400 million Climate Change Trust Fund from its own resources for financing adaptation and mitigation projects. The Climate Change Trust Fund covered a total of 732 projects across the country since 2010, worth around $297 million. Among them, a total of 377 projects have been completed, costing around $202 million, while 355 projects worth $95 million are in the process of implementation.
20/02/2023
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