ABSTRACT
The knowledge of climate refugees and climate change-induced displacement/migrant was framed on the basis of the idea that maximum lands of Bangladesh are going underwater due to the slow-onset event of global warming – sea level rise. This chapter examines the impacts of climate change and subsequent population movement in Bangladesh. It explores the argument of the critics and reveals that state actors and international institutions interpret climate change data in a way that better serves their political and economic interests. The chapter demonstrates how the dominant actors in global climate politics – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the World Bank – produce the knowledge of sea level rise-induced population movement in Bangladesh in their official documents and how the critics of these actors dismiss the knowledge. It describes the pattern of cyclones in Bangladesh which can have an impact on sea level rise.
