Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh

Md. Ayatullah Khan

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Md. Ayatullah Khan ¹ ^*

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¹ Development Studies Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, BANGLADESH^* Corresponding Author

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The consequence of the COVID-19 outbreaks and continued crisis already gave us some crucial lessons as a baseline assessment to deal with in the context of climate change, which for the twenty-first century is a serious challenge and risk to human survival. This report however describes the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses them from Bangladesh viewpoint in tackling risks linked to the climate change.

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COVID-19
climate change
Bangladesh

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Agricultural and Environmental Education, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2022, Article No: em001

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Khan, M. A. (2022). Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh. Agricultural and Environmental Education, 1(1), em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824

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Khan MA. Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh. Agricultural and Environmental Education. 2022;1(1):em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824

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Khan MA. Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh. Agricultural and Environmental Education. 2022;1(1), em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824

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Khan, Md. Ayatullah. "Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh". Agricultural and Environmental Education 2022 1 no. 1 (2022): em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824

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Khan, M. A. (2022). Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh. Agricultural and Environmental Education, 1(1), em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824

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Khan, Md. Ayatullah "Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic to Tackle Climate Change-Led Risks in Bangladesh". Agricultural and Environmental Education, vol. 1, no. 1, 2022, em001. https://doi.org/10.29333/agrenvedu/11824