![]() Back home, where their view looked onto cultivated paddies, annual monsoon floods are commonplace. Now, her mother works in a garment factory her father, once a rice farmer, drives a rickshaw. ![]() Her family home on the northern flood plains of Kishoreganj was washed away last year, forcing them to move here. So she lets other small voices blurt out: “Floods!” “Cyclones!” But – as one of an estimated 2,000 climate migrants arriving in this capital city every day – she knows the answer better than anyone. When the teacher asks the students – ages 8 to 14 – if they know what climate change is, Lamia is too timid to answer. ![]() Mitigation was the traditional solution but now, says Asif Saleh, the executive director of the nongovernmental organization BRAC, “we are seeing that that’s irrelevant, that even if you do mitigation, you will need to continue to do adaptation because changes are happening on the ground.” ![]() Part 3 in a seven-part series.īut Lamia is a climate adapter, a member of what the Monitor, in this global report, is calling the Climate Generation: those born since 1989, when the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted and when climate change became a familiar phrase in global consciousness. Here in Bangladesh, she’s part of a new national narrative of climate adaptation in facing the effects of climate change.Īdaptability – everything from rainwater collection to better education – affects where children live, if they have to work, and when they’ll marry. In Bangladesh, on the world’s largest delta, the effects of climate change determine where children live, how long they study, and when they will marry. ![]()
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