Bangladesh tops a list of 32 countries that face extreme risks because of climate change, according to reports published in different online agencies including Reuters.
According to a study undertaken by UK researcher Maplecroft, 32 countries out of 196 surveyed face that level of threat.
The Bath, England-based analyst forwarded an e-mailed statement in this regard to a foreign news agency.
Apart from Bangladesh, the other nine top countries expected to suffer from climate change after effects are Sierra Leone and South Sudan, Nigeria, Chad, Haiti, Ethiopia, the Philippines, the Central African Republic and Eritrea.
The threatened nations all depend heavily on agriculture, which accounts for 28 per cent of their combined economic output relying on farm-related revenue, and 65 per cent of the working population employed in the sector, according to Maplecroft.
The climate risk combined with food insecurity act as "threat multipliers" escalating the danger of civil conflict, it said.
These countries are facing extreme risks as a result of climate change, exacerbating the chances of civil conflict, according to a study by UK researcher Maplecroft
Food shortages and rising prices have the potential to worsen political, ethnic, class and religious tensions, the risk advisory firm Maplecroft reported in its annual "Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas (CCERA)".
In Nigeria, for instance, the rise of the Muslim insurgency Boko Haram may be linked to population movements caused by a west African drought a decade ago, the UK-based company said.
Countries with fast-growing economies including Cambodia (12), India (13), Myanmar (19), Pakistan (24) and Mozambique (27) also feature in the "extreme risk" category.
