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Bangladesh launches climate change action plan : Nature News - 0 views

www.nature.com/...news.2008.1103.html

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  • The strategy is aimed at adapting to the local effects of climate change over the coming decade
  • 75 million
  • UK government
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  • food security, disaster management, research and knowledge management and mitigation and low-carbon technology development
  • undermine efforts to reduce poverty
    • jeffrey langlois
      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      it is interesting that they are requesting money from the UK
  • two years
  • 500 million
  • 5 billion
  • five years.
  • funds needed for disaster relief and rehabilitation
  • Bangladesh is ground zero for climate change.
  • centre for research and knowledge management on climate change
  • crop varieties that are tolerant to flooding and salinity
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      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      It is strange to developed a whole new kind of plant specifically designed for this one country. It seems like an expensive solution but more long term.
  • 40% of the country could be affected by flooding by 2050
  • tabilizing greenhouse gases
  • grossly inadequate.
  • international community
  • most vulnerable
  • 45 million of its own cash
  • jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
     
    good explanations of action plan
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implications of climate change - 2 views

www.springerlink.com/...u8761x5602017220

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      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      in the middle of three large rivers
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      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      a fifth of the country is annually flooded
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      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      R = P − E. Here R = runoff, P = precipitation and E = actual evapotranspiration, which was calculated using the relationship E =  P  1+( P PE ) 2 
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      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      figure 3C is good
    • jeffrey langlois
      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      table II is good
    • jeffrey langlois
      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      as well as table V
    • jeffrey langlois
      jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
       
      figure 7 shows good future expectations
  • jeffrey langlois on 28 Oct 12
     
    extremely good source for information
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