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Environmental Displacement in South Asia

Author: Sirpa Tenhunen

Climate change Cyclone Aila

Living with climate change in Sundarbans, India

By Sirpa Tenhunen | October 25, 2019January 2, 2020 by Sirpa Tenhunen

Sundarbans, the mangrove delta area, which belongs to both India and Bangladesh, is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. Erratic weather, storms, and the rising seawater have already been contributing to a steady flow of migration from the area to the megacity Kolkata and even cities further away. In 2009, the…