Bangladesh Reels From the Impact of Climate Change
In 2008, a United Nations Adaptation Fund was launched to help poor countries finance projects to blunt the effects of global warming, but industrialized nations have failed to make the promised donations. In Copenhagen, Denmark, climate talks may reveal a deepening rift between developing countries and industrialized nations.
Producer Steve Sapienza of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides a view from Bangladesh, a nation already reeling from the impact of climate change.
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - Bangladesh