Coastal communities are the victims of climatic injustice, where they have little contribution to the causes of sea level rise, frequent incidents of cyclones, and extreme heat conditions. Bangladesh has little contribution (0.28% share in comparison to worldwide) in carbon emissions, which results in global warming and melting the treasury of glaciers, consequently raising the level of the sea. Drawing on these situations, this study seeks to identify the status of the poor within the activism of climate justice initiated by different development agencies working in Bangladesh. A mixed-method approach has been adopted to collect necessary information, including questionnaire survey, field observations, and in-depth interviews. Political ecology has made it clear that local, national, and global forces combined together—from government intervention to the structures of international aid and market pressures—work upon the distribution of both risks and resources. In Bangladesh, the poorest of communities often suffer most when disasters striking come from climate change; for example, flooding kills their children, cyclones blow over their huts, and riverbank erosion wipes away their land. But they are least likely to access defensive measures, adaptations that can be made, or livelihoods that are sustainable.
Keywords:
Climate justice
Coastal communities
Developing countries
Sea level rise
Political ecology
Global Warming
They have no way of remedying these vulnerabilities and little capability to recover from them. Additionally, there is a gap in terms of the presence of most carbon-producing countries to supplement and share the economic benefits they gain through the power and energy generation-production process. Unveiling its complex interrelations, the study concludes by emphasizing the need to design context-specific, generously inclusive policies that favour groups who have been deprived and alienated. There must be systemic transformations that address both where social-environmental ills come from and what makes them persist.
