CASE STUDIES FROM BANGLADESH TO COINCIDE WITH RELEASE OF TEARFUND REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE UNDERWAY IN BALI.....MOHAMMED HANIF WITH HIS SON, RIAZ AND WIFE, NILOFA IN THE WRECKAGE OF THEIR HOUSE WHICH WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY CYCLONE SIDR IN SOUTH BANGLADESH...THE FAMILY SURVIVED BY CLINGING TO THE UPPER BRANCHES OF THE TREE BEHIND THEM WHERE, TRAGICALLY, THEIR DAUGHTER, ISHA, WAS SWEPT OUT OF HER FATHERS ARMS.....TO MAKE THEIR PROBLEMS WORSE THE VILLAGE HAS NO DRINKING WATER AS THEIR SUPPLIES HAVE BECOME SALIENATED BY RISING SEA-LEVELS AND VILLAGERS HAVE TO WALK OVER A KM TO A PUMP...TEARFUND IS PUSHING FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO BE AN URGENT GOVERNMENT PRIORITY...SINCE THE POOREST COMMUNITIES ARE BEING HIT FIRST AND WORST.....FILENAME: BANGLA26....