Climate Change and Urban Poverty – Infrastructures of Development, 28 Jan 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh

An international conference convened by BRAC University and University of Manchester.

The conference has 3 main goals:

• To raise the awareness of policymakers and public about the need to protect poor people from the harm wrought by global climate change, particularly in Bangladesh.
• To deepen understanding of the ways in which climate change will impact on the lives of the urban poor and contribute to urban planning policies and governance structures.
• To identify policies and practices to effectively adapt low-income urban Bangladesh to climate change.

Conference Themes

Key note speakers and conference participants will present papers examining different means of adapting to the multiple consequences of climate change for the urban poor. Themes thus may include, but aren’t limited to, the nexus between climate change, urban poverty and:

• Health, water and sanitation
• The built environment, including housing and transport infrastructure
• Urban governance
• Urban social movements
• Rural-to-urban migration and environmental refugees
• Urban livelihoods
• Finance for urban adaptation

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