Climate and environment
Ensuring the environment is managed in a way that helps to reduce poverty.
Climate change - case studies
How a changing climate is affecting people in developing countries
- Nepal: Watching the glaciers melt – first hand
- Nepal: Surviving mud and landslides
- Bangladesh: River island living
- Bangladesh: Life, land and property devastated by Cyclone Sidr
- Mozambique: Droughts, floods and higher temperatures bring more disease to city life
- Ghana: Destroyed by floods and droughts
- Guatemala: Drought, mud slides and later harvests add to hardships in remote highlands
- India: Trapped by drought and debt
- Malawi: Flood-hit children start taking action
- Sudan: Conflict and climate change
Tackling climate change in Bangladesh
Thousands of people in Bangladesh are living with the reality of climate change.
Read stories showing how DFID is already helping people affected by impacts such as rising sea-levels, increased salinity, waterlogged land and unpredictable weather patterns. The stories testify to the resourcefulness, resilience, adaptability and indefatigability of ordinary Bangladeshis as they come to terms with, and work to overcome, the challenges presented by the changing global climate.
Case studies of DFID's work
- Flood-resistant housing in Bangladesh
- Research on climate change in China
- Reducing deforestation and carbon emissions in Indonesia
- Withstanding flooding in Zambia
- Keyhole gardens help Lesotho adjust to climate change
- Ugandan journalists put climate change on the news agenda
- Fighting floods in Asia's water tower
Other case studies
Cutting Carbon in India - an imaginative scheme in one of India’s poorest states means small farmers can sell carbon credits on the world market by growing trees
Drought in Ethiopia - a woman collects water from a muddy pond. Image - Dieter Telemans/Panos Pictures
More about climate change
Forget about making poverty history. Climate change will make poverty permanent.
Nazmul Chowdhury Practical Action
