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also raise the number of floating people and slum dwellers in the city.

Climate change accelerate the following hazards-

What is headway?

We need to be anticipatory and proactive to tackle the disastrous effects of climate change, .because the process is slow. We need to see our future by projection and modelling, and acting accordingly. The knowledge base should be integrated containing knowledge from core science and local knowledge at all level, from forecast of impact to implementation of adaptation programme.

To combat the catastrophic climate change we need

* Sufficient infrastructure for adaptation

’ Short-term measures to adapt to climate change impacts

• Awareness raising and preparing society to combat climate change

* Extensive research on adaptation and vulnerability assessment

* Institutional capacity building

* Mitigation strategy to implement low-carbon or carbon neutral development

Mahfujur Rahman works as a Research Officer at Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS).