Venice: The Bangladesh of the West

Climate change becomes the great leveller as Italy's Adriatic jewel and Bangladesh's poverty-stricken deltas face surprisingly similar problems

By  Michèle Penna  Apr 02, 2014

What do Bangladesh and Venice have in common? Most would guess little or nothing and it is indeed hard to see a link between the lush, green mangroves of the Bay of Bengal and the wooden piers lined with gondolas of the Venetian lagoon. But the two places share a common challenge, and a vital one at that: they both are among the most vulnerable places to climate change in the world.

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