As governments gather for the Paris Climate Summit the effects of climate change are escalating in Bangladesh

On Monday, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) begins in Paris. Mubashar Hasan and Khurshed Alam highlight the importance of the conference for Bangladesh as the country that is most vulnerable to climate change. They write that the effects are already being felt leading to vast numbers of poor and marginalised internal migrants flooding the cities or attempting to emigrate, with major policy implications at local, regional and global levels.