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It details severe climate risks affecting poor and vulnerable communities, including cyclone losses, flooding impacts on GDP, coastal sea-level rise, agricultural contraction, and large-scale internal climate migration. It also outlines resilience priorities, the health and economic costs of environmental degradation, and opportunities for more equitable, cleaner growth through targeted investments and reform implementation.","Country Climate and Development Report _ Executive Summary: Bangladesh  \n1  \nPub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nExecutive Summary  \nSince independence, Bangladesh has made significant progress on growth and poverty reduction, with poverty declining from 48.9 percent in 2000 to 24.3 percent in 2016. Bangladesh has been among the fastest growing economies in the world, with annual per capita income growth of 4.0 percent over the past three decades. Further progress on human capital development, service delivery, connectivity, and rural welfare are imperative to sustain growth and poverty reduction. This must be accompanied by accelerated economic reforms to increase trade competitiveness, mobilize domestic revenue, deepen the financial sector, and strengthen climate resilience.  \nBangladesh faces severe climate risks which, without strong action, will undermine its development trajectory with worsening impacts on the poor and vulnerable. Even under optimistic global climate scenarios, the country faces multiple severe risks from climate change. Average annual losses from tropical cyclones alone are already US$1 billion per annum (0 .7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)) . These impacts are likely to increase, including due to more frequent cyclone events that could result in significantly larger losses. Under severe flooding, GDP falls by as much as 9 percent relative to the baseline. Climate vulnerability is particularly acute on Bangladesh’s coast. Under a 1.5°C increase in temperature and 4 percent increase in precipitation , sea levels in the Bay of Bengal could rise by 27 centimeters or more by 2050. Such sea level rise would nearly double asset risk, currently at approximately US$300 million per annum, and threaten agricultural production, water supply, and the diversity of coastal ecosystems. Without action, by 2040, cropland could shrink by more than 6.5 percent nationally and 18 percent in Southern Bangladesh. One-third of total agricultural GDP may be lost due to climate variability and extreme events by 2050. By this time, Bangladesh could see over 13 million internal climate migrants.  \nClimate change will disproportionately affect the poor, with impacts more concentrated in already vulnerable regions of Bangladesh. Building resilience with sustained and equitable growth is a development challenge. The costs of environmental degradation and natural disasters are expected to rise over time, compounded by higher heat and humidity and impacts on health. Investments to shore up resilience should be prioritized for hot spots such as in the Barind, Coastal zone, Haor area and Hill Tracts, and the three regions facing particularly high poverty rates and a compounding set of natural hazards: the western upazilas of Mymensingh, eastern upazilas of Rangpur, and southern parts of Khulna Division.  \nFurthermore, environmental degradation compounds the negative impacts of climate change. The annual cost of air pollution has been estimated at 9 percent of GDP while thirty-two percent of all deaths in Bangladesh are linked to environmental degradation, particularly outdoor and household air pollution; inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene standards; and lead exposure. Thus, the most farreaching co benefits of climate action will come from improved air quality.  \nThese development challenges can be addressed while increasing resilience to climate risk. Transitioning away from high emission industries will positively impact poorer communities, including informal labor. Strengthening agricultural resilience to hotter, wetter conditions, safeguarding coastal areas and expanding nature-based solutions will support more equitable development by reducing rural stress and coastal erosion. 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