The shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, Greg Clark MP, recently visited Bangladesh with Christian Aid to see how climate change is effecting people in the poorest communities.
Here's a short video Dr Clark made of his trip.
Dr Clark met with Christian Aid partner organisations and the communities they work with in the capital Dhaka, as well as in the coastal Bagerhat District, one of the areas hit worst by the impacts of global warming.
There he found out how people were having to cope with increasingly frequent flooding, worse storms, erosion of coastlines and river banks, and salination of the water sources.
The visit convinced Dr Clark of the need for new financing to assist poor people in developing countries such as Bangladesh in coping with climate change – and the need to do this without delay.
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