GCF Result Areas: Increased resilience of infrastructure and the built environment to climate change threats

Strengthening resilience and mitigation of climate change impact on the cultural heritage sites in Southwest Bangladesh

Enhancing capacity and knowledge for climate impact-resilient cultural heritage management

Economics of cultural heritage

Cultural heritage sites resilience

An independent Heritage Research Centre to overcome institutional difficulties and connect cultural heritage to global agenda on SDGs. Incorporating a wider set of stakeholders on cultural heritage

Provide a body of knowledge and scholarship on cultural heritage and climate change from all over the world

A Cultural Heritage Research Centre to become a HUB for cultural heritage in times of climate change, attracting visibility, global interest and funding

Develop methodologies and models (financial, physical, technological, and others) to intervene cultural heritage impacted by climate change

Assessment mechanisms including additional indicators and standards to measure cultural heritage and contribution to SDGs in Bangladesh

Public policy assessment and design to improve cultural heritage conditions under current characteristics of change

• Institutional disconnection to incorporate cultural heritage to climate change dynamics • Lack of scholarship (worldwide) to position practices on cultural heritage impacted by sea level rise, salinity, rain and wind increase • Lack of good practices to reproduce on cultural heritage in climate change

• Lack of standards and indicators to measure adaptability and resilience of cultural heritage to climate effects • Methodologies and procedures for cultural heritage to respond to climate change

Lack of plans and actions to adapt cultural heritage to the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh. Those impacts are evident on disruptions and deteriorations to historic fabric, surrounding communities and tradition