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Bangladesh tops the Global Climate Risk Index

“No developed country is on the top 20 list of countries worst affected by extreme weather events.”

600,000 people died as a direct consequence from more than 11,000 extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, the 2010 Global Climate Risk Index shows.

The report from the climate and development organization Germanwatch was released on Tuesday at [...]

Bangladesh asks for 15 percent of any climate fund

If sea levels rise by one meter, at least 20 million Bangladeshis, of a total population about 150 million, would be displaced. If the glaciers on the Himalayas melt due to global warming, the situation is even worse.

“The population of our one coastal district is bigger than the entire population of all island countries [...]