Climate change affects the infrastructure as much as it affects the lives of general people. The effect of climate change in Bangladesh is worse than other countries because of poor infrastructure and management. In rural areas the consequences are three to four times worse than it is in the urban side.

The rural areas are vulnerable to natural disasters. Due to climate change, the road and rail network will suffer from increased flood and erosion damage and salinity impacts in coastal areas. Extreme weathers like, heavy monsoon or heatwaves may cause natural calamities like, riverbank erosion, draught, cyclone, storm etc. Whenever this sort of catastrophes appear in rural areas, It greately damages the areas creating debris like fallen elelctric poles or trees. This sort of destruction of properties can cripple the economy of the following areas. Damage to highways due to flood alone is estimated to be around 1,011 and 3,315 kilometres by the year 2030 and 2050, respectively. The corresponding damage to embankments is estimated to be about 4,271 and 13,996 km by the year 2030 and 2050, respectively.

However, to mitigate the dire consequences there are two steps. One is to lessen the effects of climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and encouraging the removal of Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere. The other is developing the infrastructure. There is scope for incorporating mitigation measures in existing and new infrastructure. For example, to protect embankments carrying roads and railways, trees and other appropriate vegetation can be planted to prevent erosion and weakening of the embankment. These plants will help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus contribute to the mitigation effort.

Bangladesh Government is fully committed to take all measures so that climate change is managed in a way that the people are fully protected from its adverse impacts. There are several policy response options that relate to climate change. Direct policy responses include addressing vulnerability to climate variability and extreme events through disaster risk reductions and management schemes, and mainstreaming climate change into sectoral plans and national policies. Bangladesh has a Participatory Disaster Management Programme (PDMP) with a focus on disaster management and prevention, and adaptation to climate change.

It is recommended that a computer based Management Information System (MIS) is built for rural infrastructure to help monitor the impacts of Climate Change.

This report was written with information from IUCN Bangladesh's Climate Change and Infrastructure report of Bangladesh 2020 retrieved from: https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/import/downloads/infastructure.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3xlW81WynXxfKmdSqft_kkt6lxLGFZo3BqQKjKBMafVu4YvpoEh2xRiPc