Sunday, September 07, 2008

Stop driving that SUV and the rainy season will be drier and the dry season will be rainier in Bangladesh

UK gives £50m to Bangladesh climate change fund
Britain will give Bangladesh at least £50m to adapt to climate change in the first big attempt by a rich nation to stave off environmental catastrophe in one of the world's poorest countries.
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"We are one of the most vulnerable countries in the world. We are getting much too much water in the rainy season and too little in the dry season. All this affects how much food we can grow," said Bangladesh's environment minister, Raja Debashish Roy.

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