Climate proofing infrastructure in Bangladesh: the incremental cost of limiting future inland monsoon flood damage

• Source(s): World Bank, the (WB)
• Publication date: 2010
• Author(s): Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khan, Zahirul Huq; Masud, Md. Sohel; Ahmed, Manjur Murshed Zahid; Mukherjee, Nandan; Pandey, Kiran
• Number of pages: 34 p.

This paper presents a detailed bottom-up methodology to estimate the adaptation cost to intensified floods in a changing climate and intends to shed light in climate negotiations as a prototype of adaptation cost to extreme weather events, asserting that investments in increased understanding of risk-mitigation options and in economic mobility would have especially high returns. It examines the potential cost of offsetting increased flooding risk from climate change, based on simulations from a climate model of extreme floods out to 2050 in Bangladesh, and considers the capital-intensive investments, improved policies, planning and institutions that would be essential to ensure that such investments are used correctly and yield the expected benefits.

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