Climate adaptation funding shortfall puts Bangladesh under pressure

Even after 17 years of Cyclone Aila, the homestead of Md Zia Gain and his wife, Shamima Begum, in Mothbari village of Koyra upazila, Khulna, remains submerged beneath the waters of the Shakbaria River. A nearly three-kilometre-long and 250-metre-wide channel, formed by tidal currents after an embankment collapsed, has swallowed their home. They now live on the slope of the embankment of the…