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A man repairs a rickshaw at a garage in the Kalyanpur slum area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 11 September 2022. The Kalyanpur slum is home to over 9,000 people, according to the BRAC non-governmental organization (NGO), which runs an urban development program there. A BRAC survey found that 21 percent of the slum dwellers arrived after being displaced by climate-related disasters. 'The impacts of climate change continue to take a huge economic and social toll on the people of Bangladesh', UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, Ian Fry said. According to a World Bank report released in 2018, the number of people displaced by climate change in Bangladesh could reach 13.3 million by 2050, making it the country's number-one driver of internal migration. (Photo by Monirul Alam/EPA/EFE)
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