ClimUrb: Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh
ClimUrb: Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh is a major new research programme exploring climate change impacts and adaptation in poor urban settlements of the developing world. It seeks to create policy-relevant knowledge about how climate change impacts on the livelihoods and living conditions of poor urban people and communities.
There is now widespread agreement that climate change is happening and that the lives of the poor will be, and already are, negatively affected. This is particularly true for the urban poor who, over the course of the next 25 years, will become the majority of the world’s poor people.
Current research activities have an exclusive focus on Bangladesh. Initiatives are under way for other geographical areas, for example the EcoCities project in Manchester, and the Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa (CLUVA) project.