Bangladesh is at the risk of facing food insecurity, serious diseases, increased mortality and morbidity, loss of rural livelihood and marine and coastal ecosystem due to climate change, Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said Wednesday.
The country is also set to face scarcity of fresh water, rise in temperature, severe winter, rise in sea level and rapid increase of urban population, it stated.
It might face extreme weather as the consequences of climate change, which might lead to breakdown of infrastructure networks and critical services like electricity, water supply and emergency services.
The IPCC's Head of Communications and Media Relations Jonathan Lynn spelled out the impact of climate change at a press conference at the National Press Club in the city.
The theme of the press conference was 'IPCC's AR 5: How Bangladesh translates climate change and its vulnerabilities.'
The IPCC would hand over the report to the government Thursday.
It forecast a breakdown of food system due to warming, draught, flooding and reduced agricultural productivity as the consequences of climate change.
Due to sea level rise, coastal systems and low-lying areas will increasingly experience adverse impacts such as submerging, coastal flooding and coastal erosion, the IPCC warned.
Marine species, redistribution and marine biodiversity reduction will challenge the sustained provision of fisheries productivity and other ecosystem services.
"There is no doubt that the climate is changing due to increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) in atmosphere," said Mr Lynn.
Climate will continue to change in the coming decades as there is little chance of reduction of GHG, he added.
Global temperature is set to increase by 4-6 degree Celsius within the next 50 years if the GHG cannot be reduced, said Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC AR 5 John Church.
A media workshop on climate change was also organised jointly in a city hotel by Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), Panos South Asia and, IPCC where Regional Environmental Manager of Panos South Asia S Gopikrishna Warrier and senior journalist Mostafa Kamal Majumder also spoke.
